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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... greatest transports of mirih , who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy on the contrary , ch'erfulness , though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness , prevents us from falling into any depth of sorrow ...
... greatest transports of mirih , who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy on the contrary , ch'erfulness , though it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness , prevents us from falling into any depth of sorrow ...
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... greatest weight and moment . 2. As mat- ters of the greatest depth and mysterious- ness . 3. As matters of the most univer- sal satisfaction to the minds of men . 1. They are matters of the greatest mo- ment and importance for men to ...
... greatest weight and moment . 2. As mat- ters of the greatest depth and mysterious- ness . 3. As matters of the most univer- sal satisfaction to the minds of men . 1. They are matters of the greatest mo- ment and importance for men to ...
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... greatest of the Latin writers , though ex- celled by some of them in language . The elder Pliny's natural history is a work learned and copious , that entertains you with all the variety of nature itself , and is one of the greatest ...
... greatest of the Latin writers , though ex- celled by some of them in language . The elder Pliny's natural history is a work learned and copious , that entertains you with all the variety of nature itself , and is one of the greatest ...
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