Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Poetry

T. Longman, 1794 - English prose literature - 1119 pages

I	1

Narratives Dialogues c with other humourous facetious	3

Sect	8

On the Immortality of the Soul	9

Character of Marius	14

Puniſhment of miffpent Time	15

Speech of Seneca to Nero	20

Dialogue between the Plinys Dial Dead 818	22

On the Conception and Birth of Christ	177

On the Refurrection of the Body	184

Honour due to Gods Word	190

Against wronging our Neighbour	196

Play Things	204

Expoftulation with Believers M Pafcal	207

The Divine Legation of Mofes Lord Forbes	218

The Duty of a Clerk	219

CONTENTS	25

Cius Marius to the Romans	27

Scene between Shylock and Tubal Shakef 827	28

Rules for the Knowledge of Ones Self	33

Acquaintance with the beft Authors	35

fitions and Habits	39

Character of William Rufus	45

Authors	49

Character of Henry II	52

Learning its Application	55

Gregory	57

Character of Henry III	58

Of British Juries	61

27	64

Whatever violates Nature cannot	71

Account of Herry VI	77

Advantages of a Place of Education	80

Ridicule one of the chief Arts of Cor	85

Happiness founded in Rectitude	95

Burke 910	105

a valuable Virtue in a	112

Smollett 738	117

Citizens Country Houſe deſcribed	118

Falstaffs Soliloquy on Honour	124

Smollett 741	126

Character of a mighty good Sort	130

131 Another Character of	132

A Letter to a Young Nobleman	139

Xenophons Memoirs of Socrates	158

CATECHETICAL LECTURES	171

Defign and Intention of the Hebrew	230

The Excellence of Scripture Stilling fleet	236

Prevalence of Christianity an Argument	244

Fine Morality of the Gofpel	303

Hume 744	309

PHYSICOTHEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS	310

The Horfe	321

2	339

3	369

Of the Afections of	378

Claffical and Hiflerical	387

Johnjon 884	395

Explanation of Terms	396

843	402

BOOK	415

73	424

Obfervations on the Encid	445

73	453

Morals of the Claffics	457

On the Morality of Juvenal	467

The Pigeon	470

Rife of Philofophical Criticiſm	473

2	477

Advice to a Beginner in Criticiſin	480

On the Theory of Whole and Parts	486

Connoif 897	505

Enumeration of Superfti ions obferved	556

Defence against a Noble Lords Reflections 851 91	573

1094	600

Example of Hiftorical Narration	604

Title	Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Poetry Volume 1 of Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons ; Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Poetry, Vicesimus Knox
Author	Vicesimus Knox
Editor	Vicesimus Knox
Edition	5
Publisher	T. Longman, 1794
Original from	The British Library
Digitized	4 Feb 2015
Length	1119 pages

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