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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... kind of animal is different from that of every other kind ; and yet there is not the least turn in the mascles or twist in the fibres of any one , which does not render them more proper for that particular animal's way of lite , than ...
... kind of animal is different from that of every other kind ; and yet there is not the least turn in the mascles or twist in the fibres of any one , which does not render them more proper for that particular animal's way of lite , than ...
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... kind of in- jury or revenge ; commands to overcome evil with good ; to pray for enemies and persecutors ; doth not admit of any men- tal , much less any corporal uncleanness ; doth not tolerate any immodest or un- conely word or gesture ...
... kind of in- jury or revenge ; commands to overcome evil with good ; to pray for enemies and persecutors ; doth not admit of any men- tal , much less any corporal uncleanness ; doth not tolerate any immodest or un- conely word or gesture ...
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... kind of man , you may make him agree , that it is very hot , very cold , very cloudy , a fine sunshine , or it rains , snows , hails , or freezes , all in the same hour . The wind may be high , or not blow at all it may be East , West ...
... kind of man , you may make him agree , that it is very hot , very cold , very cloudy , a fine sunshine , or it rains , snows , hails , or freezes , all in the same hour . The wind may be high , or not blow at all it may be East , West ...
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