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 143
... present existence , are not the persons whom any thing here said proposes to affect . They are not , I mean , directly applied to in this work ; but even their benefit it may be said consequentially to intend , as it would certainly ...
... present existence , are not the persons whom any thing here said proposes to affect . They are not , I mean , directly applied to in this work ; but even their benefit it may be said consequentially to intend , as it would certainly ...
Pagina 505
... Present . Every past age has in its turn been a present age . This indeed is obvious , but this is not all ; for every past age , when present , has been the object of abuse . Men have been represented by their contempo- raries not only ...
... Present . Every past age has in its turn been a present age . This indeed is obvious , but this is not all ; for every past age , when present , has been the object of abuse . Men have been represented by their contempo- raries not only ...
Pagina 506
... present events upon present sensations . There is a praise belonging to the past , congenial with this censure ; a praise form- ed from negatives , and best illustrated by examples . Thus a declaimer might assert ( suppos- ing he had a ...
... present events upon present sensations . There is a praise belonging to the past , congenial with this censure ; a praise form- ed from negatives , and best illustrated by examples . Thus a declaimer might assert ( suppos- ing he had a ...
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