Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations: Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons, Volume 1S. Walker, 1826 - English letters |
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Page 30
... greatest transports of mirth , who pleasures of the creation which are are subject to the greatest depres- poured about him , and does not feel sions of melancholy on the contra- the full weight of those accidental ry , cheerfulness ...
... greatest transports of mirth , who pleasures of the creation which are are subject to the greatest depres- poured about him , and does not feel sions of melancholy on the contra- the full weight of those accidental ry , cheerfulness ...
Page 142
... greatest hurt or debasement , we may pends , the soul carrying hence no- well suppose it an erroneous one ; thing with it , but its good or bad ac- since it is in the highest degree im- tions , its virtues or vices , and these probable ...
... greatest hurt or debasement , we may pends , the soul carrying hence no- well suppose it an erroneous one ; thing with it , but its good or bad ac- since it is in the highest degree im- tions , its virtues or vices , and these probable ...
Page 204
... greatest magnitude ) so to trouble " life and immortality was brought these waters , as not therein to dis- to light by the gospel , " and the future cover the greatness of his own de- state of the soul of man , not discover- formities ...
... greatest magnitude ) so to trouble " life and immortality was brought these waters , as not therein to dis- to light by the gospel , " and the future cover the greatness of his own de- state of the soul of man , not discover- formities ...
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