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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... pass through the fire to devour them . " Did they cause them to pass through the fire , only to purify them , and to preserve ' them alive ? No , certainly ; but to de- vour or consume them . The same pro- phet elsewhere determines this ...
... pass through the fire to devour them . " Did they cause them to pass through the fire , only to purify them , and to preserve ' them alive ? No , certainly ; but to de- vour or consume them . The same pro- phet elsewhere determines this ...
Pagina 338
... pass over the orifice of the wind- pipe : whence it is in danger of falling upon the lungs , which might occasion in- stant death . To obviate this , a moveable lid is placed , which when the smallest particle advances , is pulled down ...
... pass over the orifice of the wind- pipe : whence it is in danger of falling upon the lungs , which might occasion in- stant death . To obviate this , a moveable lid is placed , which when the smallest particle advances , is pulled down ...
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... pass from an ancient author to a modern , what scene more striking than the first scene in Hamlet ? " The solemnity " of the time , a severe and pinching night " the solemnity of the place , a platform " for a guard - the guards ...
... pass from an ancient author to a modern , what scene more striking than the first scene in Hamlet ? " The solemnity " of the time , a severe and pinching night " the solemnity of the place , a platform " for a guard - the guards ...
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