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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Pagina 63
... imagination and passions , and on habits originally founded on these . A vicious man is generally sensible enough that his conduct is wrong ; he knows that vice is contrary both to his duty and to his inte- rest ; and therefore , all ...
... imagination and passions , and on habits originally founded on these . A vicious man is generally sensible enough that his conduct is wrong ; he knows that vice is contrary both to his duty and to his inte- rest ; and therefore , all ...
Pagina 64
... imagination and passions , have made it too generally neglected , even by the most eminent of the clergy for ... imagination , and sensi- bility of heart , and , like these qualities , prevails more in warmer climates than it • does in ...
... imagination and passions , have made it too generally neglected , even by the most eminent of the clergy for ... imagination , and sensi- bility of heart , and , like these qualities , prevails more in warmer climates than it • does in ...
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... imagination , and continually alters its aspect : the mot- ley image , whose comic side we had only time to survey , is too unimportant to be attentively considered , and luckily va- nishes before we can view it on every side . Shallow ...
... imagination , and continually alters its aspect : the mot- ley image , whose comic side we had only time to survey , is too unimportant to be attentively considered , and luckily va- nishes before we can view it on every side . Shallow ...
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