Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... body of it . hope to pass through them without Education , after the same manner , losing the road of virtue , which we , when it works upon a noble mind , for a while , keep in our sight , and draws out to view every latent virtue to ...
... body of it . hope to pass through them without Education , after the same manner , losing the road of virtue , which we , when it works upon a noble mind , for a while , keep in our sight , and draws out to view every latent virtue to ...
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... body , and with one glance of thought in the heart of a reasonable creature . should start beyond the bounds of I considered those several proofs the creation , should it for millions of drawn , years continue its progress through First ...
... body , and with one glance of thought in the heart of a reasonable creature . should start beyond the bounds of I considered those several proofs the creation , should it for millions of drawn , years continue its progress through First ...
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... body's mouth ; but in few ney's end . The sooner you are qua- people's practice . Every fool who lified for your liberty , the sooner slatterns away his whole time in you shall have it ; and your manu- nothings , utters , however , some ...
... body's mouth ; but in few ney's end . The sooner you are qua- people's practice . Every fool who lified for your liberty , the sooner slatterns away his whole time in you shall have it ; and your manu- nothings , utters , however , some ...
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... body is more universally beloved and arms and legs , and nodding his head more universally avoided , than my backward and forward . If this artist friend Careless . He is a humane had taken equal pains to employ his man , who never did ...
... body is more universally beloved and arms and legs , and nodding his head more universally avoided , than my backward and forward . If this artist friend Careless . He is a humane had taken equal pains to employ his man , who never did ...
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... body , indolence of mind , and re- marked out for a new and spacious freshing slumbers , are too often ex- burying - ground : in which every per- changed for criminal delights , which son , whose remains are there depo- fill the soul ...
... body , indolence of mind , and re- marked out for a new and spacious freshing slumbers , are too often ex- burying - ground : in which every per- changed for criminal delights , which son , whose remains are there depo- fill the soul ...
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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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