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 237
... excellent discoveries of the quence , I mean not an artificial composure divine nature and perfections , if there be of words , but the gravity , weight , and not far more excellent directions and persuasiveness of the matter contained ...
... excellent discoveries of the quence , I mean not an artificial composure divine nature and perfections , if there be of words , but the gravity , weight , and not far more excellent directions and persuasiveness of the matter contained ...
الصفحة 429
... excellent natural endowments , without improvement . In those countries , which we call barbarous , where art and politeness are not understood , nature hath the greater advantage in this , that sim plicity of manners often secures the ...
... excellent natural endowments , without improvement . In those countries , which we call barbarous , where art and politeness are not understood , nature hath the greater advantage in this , that sim plicity of manners often secures the ...
الصفحة 468
... excellent Rules for Conversation . The best Classics lay down very valu- able rules for the management of conver- sation , for graceful and proper address to those persons with whom we converse . They instruct their readers in the ...
... excellent Rules for Conversation . The best Classics lay down very valu- able rules for the management of conver- sation , for graceful and proper address to those persons with whom we converse . They instruct their readers in the ...
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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admire Æneid affections agreeable ancient appear Aristotle attention bad company beauty body cerning character Christ Christian Cicero consider dæmons death Demosthenes divine duty earth elegance endeavour evil excellent expression father favour genius give grace greatest Greece Greek happiness hath heart heaven Herodotus holy Homer honour human Ibid idolatry Iliad imagination Jews kind knowledge labour language learned ligion live Livy Lord mankind manner matter means ment mind moral nation nature neral ness never object observe ourselves Pacuvius passions perfect persons Pindar Plato pleasure poetry poets praise proper racter reason religion render Roman Sallust Scripture sense sentiments shew sion Socrates soul speak spirit style sublime Tacitus taste temper thee Theocritus thine things thou thought Thucydides tion true truth ture unto vice Virgil virtue whole wisdom wise words writing youth