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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... given me : I called upon God , and the spirit of wisdom came to me . " Wisd . vii . 7 . " It is God that leadeth unto wisdom , and directeth the wise . For in his hand are both we and our words ; all wisdom also , and knowledge of ...
... given me : I called upon God , and the spirit of wisdom came to me . " Wisd . vii . 7 . " It is God that leadeth unto wisdom , and directeth the wise . For in his hand are both we and our words ; all wisdom also , and knowledge of ...
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... given us too Alliteration , though not under the same letters : Qui miser in campis errabat solus Alais , Ipse suum cor edens , hominum vestigia vitans . CIC . Aristotle knew this figure , and called it NAPOMOINEIE , a name perhaps not ...
... given us too Alliteration , though not under the same letters : Qui miser in campis errabat solus Alais , Ipse suum cor edens , hominum vestigia vitans . CIC . Aristotle knew this figure , and called it NAPOMOINEIE , a name perhaps not ...
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... given us the $ 211 . greater outlines and their measures , but separate measures and drawings of the minuter de- corations ; so that a British artist may ( if he please ) follow Phidias , and build in Bri- tain as Phidias did at Athens ...
... given us the $ 211 . greater outlines and their measures , but separate measures and drawings of the minuter de- corations ; so that a British artist may ( if he please ) follow Phidias , and build in Bri- tain as Phidias did at Athens ...
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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