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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... observed , that he was never known to eat to satiety lived to near 100 years ; if Jamblicus may be credited . D ... observation , that it might be of use , as shewing that they , who took the most care of their bodies and minds , lived ...
... observed , that he was never known to eat to satiety lived to near 100 years ; if Jamblicus may be credited . D ... observation , that it might be of use , as shewing that they , who took the most care of their bodies and minds , lived ...
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... observed , that the matter con- tained in them should have been so trivial or so false ; for , from the manner and style , considerable advantage might be reaped . Ibid . " $ 79 . Frequent Exercise in composing and speaking , necessary ...
... observed , that the matter con- tained in them should have been so trivial or so false ; for , from the manner and style , considerable advantage might be reaped . Ibid . " $ 79 . Frequent Exercise in composing and speaking , necessary ...
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... observations I mean to lay before the Royal Society re- late to the singing of birds , which is a sub- ject that hath never ... observed with regard to other birds , ( as has been done with re- lation to the wheat - ear ) if they were at ...
... observations I mean to lay before the Royal Society re- late to the singing of birds , which is a sub- ject that hath never ... observed with regard to other birds , ( as has been done with re- lation to the wheat - ear ) if they were at ...
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admire Æneid affections agreeable ancient appear Aristotle attention bad company beauty body cerning character Christ Christian Cicero consider dæmons death Demosthenes divine duty earth elegance endeavour evil excellent expression father favour genius give grace greatest Greece Greek happiness hath heart heaven Herodotus holy Homer honour human Ibid idolatry Iliad imagination Jews kind knowledge labour language learned ligion live Livy Lord mankind manner matter means ment mind moral nation nature neral ness never object observe ourselves Pacuvius passions perfect persons Pindar Plato pleasure poetry poets praise proper racter reason religion render Roman Sallust Scripture sense sentiments shew sion Socrates soul speak spirit style sublime Tacitus taste temper thee Theocritus thine things thou thought Thucydides tion true truth ture unto vice Virgil virtue whole wisdom wise words writing youth