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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... keep company . It may be asked what is meant by keep- ing bad company ? The world abounds with characters of this kind : they meet us in every place ; and if we keep com- pany at all , it is impossible to avoid keep- ing company with ...
... keep company . It may be asked what is meant by keep- ing bad company ? The world abounds with characters of this kind : they meet us in every place ; and if we keep com- pany at all , it is impossible to avoid keep- ing company with ...
الصفحة 201
... keep our bodies in chastity . " " Flee youthful lusts , " says the apostle , " which war against the soul . " And there is surely nothing which carries on a war against the soul more suc- cessfully . Wherever we have a catalogue in ...
... keep our bodies in chastity . " " Flee youthful lusts , " says the apostle , " which war against the soul . " And there is surely nothing which carries on a war against the soul more suc- cessfully . Wherever we have a catalogue in ...
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... keep myself . Keep out of an hasty man's way for a while , out of a sullen inan's all the days of your life . If you love me , John , your deeds will tell me so . I defy all fetters though they were made of gold . Few die of hunger , an ...
... keep myself . Keep out of an hasty man's way for a while , out of a sullen inan's all the days of your life . If you love me , John , your deeds will tell me so . I defy all fetters though they were made of gold . Few die of hunger , an ...
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