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 176
... ment , are to his history in the other . Here we see that extraordinary virgin- birth unravelled . Here we see a life spent in turning the hearts of the disobe- dient to the wisdom of the just . - Here we find the prince of his people ...
... ment , are to his history in the other . Here we see that extraordinary virgin- birth unravelled . Here we see a life spent in turning the hearts of the disobe- dient to the wisdom of the just . - Here we find the prince of his people ...
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... ment . " Kings , iii . 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 28 . " I said , days should speak ; and multi- tude of years should teach wisdom . But there is a spirit in man : and the inspira- tion of the Almighty giveth them under- standing . " Job ...
... ment . " Kings , iii . 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 28 . " I said , days should speak ; and multi- tude of years should teach wisdom . But there is a spirit in man : and the inspira- tion of the Almighty giveth them under- standing . " Job ...
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... ment foon made me well again . " " When the peace came on I was dis- " charged ; and , as I could not work , be- " caufe my wound was fometimes trouble- “ fome , I lifted for a landman in the Eaft " India company's fervice . I have ...
... ment foon made me well again . " " When the peace came on I was dis- " charged ; and , as I could not work , be- " caufe my wound was fometimes trouble- “ fome , I lifted for a landman in the Eaft " India company's fervice . I have ...
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