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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الصفحة 211
... least advance a step or two forward , if perchance they may come into the light . For which end it is wished , that they would employ in the perusal of this piece , some few of those hours , which they spend so unprofitably in other pur ...
... least advance a step or two forward , if perchance they may come into the light . For which end it is wished , that they would employ in the perusal of this piece , some few of those hours , which they spend so unprofitably in other pur ...
الصفحة 341
... least hesitation , and with the utmost propriety : exactly adapt- ing itself to the particular distance of ob- jects , and the different degrees of light . By this means it performs some of the most curious experiments in the Newtonian ...
... least hesitation , and with the utmost propriety : exactly adapt- ing itself to the particular distance of ob- jects , and the different degrees of light . By this means it performs some of the most curious experiments in the Newtonian ...
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... least of harmony and order . One might be apt indeed to fufpect , that certain writers amongst us ha confidered all beauties of this fort in the fame gloomy view with Malbranche : or , at leaft , that they avoided every refinement in ...
... least of harmony and order . One might be apt indeed to fufpect , that certain writers amongst us ha confidered all beauties of this fort in the fame gloomy view with Malbranche : or , at leaft , that they avoided every refinement in ...
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