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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الصفحة 186
... duty to God ; the other our duty to man . But this seems to be an unauthorized division ; and hath a tendency to a verbal mistake ; as if some duties were owing to God , and others to man : whereas in fact we know that all duties are ...
... duty to God ; the other our duty to man . But this seems to be an unauthorized division ; and hath a tendency to a verbal mistake ; as if some duties were owing to God , and others to man : whereas in fact we know that all duties are ...
الصفحة 192
... Duties owing to particular Persons -Duty of Children to Parents - Respect and Obedience - in what the former con- sists - in what the latter - succouring a Parent - brotherly Affection - Obedi- ence to Law - founded on the Advan tages ...
... Duties owing to particular Persons -Duty of Children to Parents - Respect and Obedience - in what the former con- sists - in what the latter - succouring a Parent - brotherly Affection - Obedi- ence to Law - founded on the Advan tages ...
الصفحة 242
... duty . thence God so fre- quently in Scripture , recommends our duties to us under all those motives which are wont to have the greatest force on the minds of men ; and annexeth gra- cious promises to our performance of them ; and those ...
... duty . thence God so fre- quently in Scripture , recommends our duties to us under all those motives which are wont to have the greatest force on the minds of men ; and annexeth gra- cious promises to our performance of them ; and those ...
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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