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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... pleasing resignation , to the divine will . Now , supposing all this to be a deception , a pleasing dream , would not the general sense of mankind condemn the philosopher , as barbarous and inhu- man , who should attempt to wake him out ...
... pleasing resignation , to the divine will . Now , supposing all this to be a deception , a pleasing dream , would not the general sense of mankind condemn the philosopher , as barbarous and inhu- man , who should attempt to wake him out ...
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... pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfec- tion of its nature , without ever arriving at a period in it . To look upon the soul as going on from ...
... pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfec- tion of its nature , without ever arriving at a period in it . To look upon the soul as going on from ...
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... pleasing , are dangerous to virtue ; and that a firinness of mind , whose cast of feature is much less pleasing , is more fa- vourable to virtue . From the affinity be- tween beauty and the passions it must fol- low , that beauty is ...
... pleasing , are dangerous to virtue ; and that a firinness of mind , whose cast of feature is much less pleasing , is more fa- vourable to virtue . From the affinity be- tween beauty and the passions it must fol- low , that beauty is ...
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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