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 99
... mankind ; that he is listed in the ser- to adorn his own brow ; gathers to - vice of Virtue , and engaged in the gether , with all his art , the failings cause of Truth ; -but I will venture and imperfections of others , and of- to ...
... mankind ; that he is listed in the ser- to adorn his own brow ; gathers to - vice of Virtue , and engaged in the gether , with all his art , the failings cause of Truth ; -but I will venture and imperfections of others , and of- to ...
Page 235
... mankind wanted a short way pro- that he would entertain such thoughts portional to every mind . They want- and persuasions as these , that Bible- ed an authority , the infallibility of learning is the highest accomplish- which all mankind ...
... mankind wanted a short way pro- that he would entertain such thoughts portional to every mind . They want- and persuasions as these , that Bible- ed an authority , the infallibility of learning is the highest accomplish- which all mankind ...
Page 258
... mankind have ever been contented tions of another life ; and the morals of with that scanty pittance of morali- mankind may have , perhaps , been no ty , which enabled them to escape where quite so abandoned , as they the lash of civil ...
... mankind have ever been contented tions of another life ; and the morals of with that scanty pittance of morali- mankind may have , perhaps , been no ty , which enabled them to escape where quite so abandoned , as they the lash of civil ...
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