Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in PoetryVicesimus Knox J. Johnson, 1808 - 1 من الصفحات An anthology of prose passages primarily from Greek, Roman, and English authors. |
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... called Academus , was called after his name , the Academy . Ari- stotle chose another spot of a similar cha- racter , where there were trees , and shade ; a spot called the Lyceum . Zeno taught in a portico or colonnade , distinguished ...
... called Academus , was called after his name , the Academy . Ari- stotle chose another spot of a similar cha- racter , where there were trees , and shade ; a spot called the Lyceum . Zeno taught in a portico or colonnade , distinguished ...
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... called Poseidon by the Greeks : the Romans gave him alfo the name of Confus , and erected an altar to him in the circus of Rome . The Circensian games , or horfe - races , inftituted in honour of him , were , from this name , called ...
... called Poseidon by the Greeks : the Romans gave him alfo the name of Confus , and erected an altar to him in the circus of Rome . The Circensian games , or horfe - races , inftituted in honour of him , were , from this name , called ...
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... called terræ dominiales , or demesne lands ; being occupied by the lord or dominus manerii , and his servants . The other tenemental lands they distributed among their tenants : which from the diffe- rent modes of tenure , were called ...
... called terræ dominiales , or demesne lands ; being occupied by the lord or dominus manerii , and his servants . The other tenemental lands they distributed among their tenants : which from the diffe- rent modes of tenure , were called ...
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On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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