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 147
... least move more effectually the mistakes burthensome to us , may give us the into which we have been led by a least uneasiness- -that none of its wrong education , by passion , inat- motions may , through any fault of tention , custom ...
... least move more effectually the mistakes burthensome to us , may give us the into which we have been led by a least uneasiness- -that none of its wrong education , by passion , inat- motions may , through any fault of tention , custom ...
Page 188
... least whose fathers livered by him to them , what authori- had been , officers in the first Temple , ty could be pretended for such a returned to the service of the second : book ? so that it is utterly impossible that Had a book been ...
... least whose fathers livered by him to them , what authori- had been , officers in the first Temple , ty could be pretended for such a returned to the service of the second : book ? so that it is utterly impossible that Had a book been ...
Page 342
... least writer , is that the former is incapable aim to please either the fancy or the of ornament , and seems not to know ear . This is tolerable only in pure what it is ; the latter seeks not after didactic writing ; and even there , to ...
... least writer , is that the former is incapable aim to please either the fancy or the of ornament , and seems not to know ear . This is tolerable only in pure what it is ; the latter seeks not after didactic writing ; and even there , to ...
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