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 55
... virtue , is at least the garb in which virtue should be always arrayed . Piety and goodness ought never to be marked with that de- jection which sometimes takes rise from superstition , but which is the proper por- tion only of guilt ...
... virtue , is at least the garb in which virtue should be always arrayed . Piety and goodness ought never to be marked with that de- jection which sometimes takes rise from superstition , but which is the proper por- tion only of guilt ...
Pagina 71
... virtue . In order to render society agreeable , it is found necessary to assunie somewhat that may at least carry its ap- pearance ; Virtue is the universal charm ; even its shadow is courted , when the sub- stance is wanting the ...
... virtue . In order to render society agreeable , it is found necessary to assunie somewhat that may at least carry its ap- pearance ; Virtue is the universal charm ; even its shadow is courted , when the sub- stance is wanting the ...
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... virtue falleth not from thine heart : be thou careful only that there is cause , and that they flow not too abundantly . The greatness of the affliction is not to be reckoned from the number of tears . The greatest griefs are above ...
... virtue falleth not from thine heart : be thou careful only that there is cause , and that they flow not too abundantly . The greatness of the affliction is not to be reckoned from the number of tears . The greatest griefs are above ...
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