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 pagina's An anthology of prose passages primarily from Greek, Roman, and English authors. |
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... consider cheerfulness in three Eights , with regard to ourselves , to those we converse with , and to the great Author of our being , it will not a little recom- mend itself on each of these accounts . The man who is possessed of this ...
... consider cheerfulness in three Eights , with regard to ourselves , to those we converse with , and to the great Author of our being , it will not a little recom- mend itself on each of these accounts . The man who is possessed of this ...
Pagina 84
... consider vice in the same detestable light , in whatever com- pauy it is found ; nay , to consider all com- pany in which it is found , be their station what it will , as bad company . The three following classes , will per- haps ...
... consider vice in the same detestable light , in whatever com- pauy it is found ; nay , to consider all com- pany in which it is found , be their station what it will , as bad company . The three following classes , will per- haps ...
Pagina 261
... consider my soul , I scarcely know whe- ther it be immortal : and could I demon- strate its natural immortality , I should not be able to say , whether my Creator would display his attributes in preserving , or in destroying it ...
... consider my soul , I scarcely know whe- ther it be immortal : and could I demon- strate its natural immortality , I should not be able to say , whether my Creator would display his attributes in preserving , or in destroying it ...
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