Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... style and language , must effectually contribute to the improvement of the RISING GENERATION in knowledge , taste , and virtue . The Public have , in- deed , already felt , and acknowledged its utility , by the least fallible proof ...
... style and language , must effectually contribute to the improvement of the RISING GENERATION in knowledge , taste , and virtue . The Public have , in- deed , already felt , and acknowledged its utility , by the least fallible proof ...
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... style and matter in terms of high panegyric , and predicted the future fame of the author ; while the favourable reception given to it by the public has been almost unexampled . The work was subsequently extended to three volumes , and ...
... style and matter in terms of high panegyric , and predicted the future fame of the author ; while the favourable reception given to it by the public has been almost unexampled . The work was subsequently extended to three volumes , and ...
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... theology . They display an elevated tone of piety , his usual polished and powerful style , and most learnedly enforce doctrines of the soundest divinity . That eminent polemic and celebrated divine , Bishop Horsley , X MEMOIR OF THE LATE.
... theology . They display an elevated tone of piety , his usual polished and powerful style , and most learnedly enforce doctrines of the soundest divinity . That eminent polemic and celebrated divine , Bishop Horsley , X MEMOIR OF THE LATE.
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... Style 5- Perspicuity 6- Purity and Propriety -Precision 8 - the use and importance of Preci- sion 9 The causes of a Loose Style 46 Of the Introduction , Improvement , and Fall of the Arts at Rome 47 The Condition of the Romans in the ...
... Style 5- Perspicuity 6- Purity and Propriety -Precision 8 - the use and importance of Preci- sion 9 The causes of a Loose Style 46 Of the Introduction , Improvement , and Fall of the Arts at Rome 47 The Condition of the Romans in the ...
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... style and manner in the different Composers of the Sacred Books . On Job , David , and Isaiah 90 On the Odyssey of Homer · 99 Reflections upon seeing Mr. Pope's House at Binfield . In a Letter Fitzosborne . 412 Ibid . 390 100 Ibid . 390 ...
... style and manner in the different Composers of the Sacred Books . On Job , David , and Isaiah 90 On the Odyssey of Homer · 99 Reflections upon seeing Mr. Pope's House at Binfield . In a Letter Fitzosborne . 412 Ibid . 390 100 Ibid . 390 ...
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Elegant Extracts, Or Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry (Classic Reprint) Vicesimus Knox No preview available - 2018 |
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