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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... knowledge makes men's minds giddy and flatulent ; this settles and com- poses them ; other knowledge is apt to swell men into high conceits and opinions of themselves ; this brings them to the truest view of themselves , and thereby to ...
... knowledge makes men's minds giddy and flatulent ; this settles and com- poses them ; other knowledge is apt to swell men into high conceits and opinions of themselves ; this brings them to the truest view of themselves , and thereby to ...
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... knowledge of it . My knowledge , and virtue , I know , will be perfected ; I know I shall comprehend truth , and obey order ; I know I shall be free from all evils , and in possession of all good ; I shall be present with God , I know ...
... knowledge of it . My knowledge , and virtue , I know , will be perfected ; I know I shall comprehend truth , and obey order ; I know I shall be free from all evils , and in possession of all good ; I shall be present with God , I know ...
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... Knowledge . Knowledge will not be won without pains and application : some parts of it are easier , some more difficult of access : we must proceed at once by sap and bat- tery and when the breach is practicable , you have nothing to do ...
... Knowledge . Knowledge will not be won without pains and application : some parts of it are easier , some more difficult of access : we must proceed at once by sap and bat- tery and when the breach is practicable , you have nothing to do ...
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On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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