Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... common observer , any just pretensions to it . It even appeared with marks of inferiority , when brought into occasional collision with well - informed understandings , cultivated by English literature alone , but greatly proficient in ...
... common observer , any just pretensions to it . It even appeared with marks of inferiority , when brought into occasional collision with well - informed understandings , cultivated by English literature alone , but greatly proficient in ...
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... common track ; but He prostrated himself on the ground , remembering that the heat was now and commended his life to the Lord in its greatest violence , and that the of nature . He rose with confidence plain was dusty and uneven , he re ...
... common track ; but He prostrated himself on the ground , remembering that the heat was now and commended his life to the Lord in its greatest violence , and that the of nature . He rose with confidence plain was dusty and uneven , he re ...
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... common diversions allows might not that savage greatness of the mind to indulge parental affec- soul , which appears in these poor tion with greater intenseness . My wretches on many occasions , be rais- birth was celebrated by the ...
... common diversions allows might not that savage greatness of the mind to indulge parental affec- soul , which appears in these poor tion with greater intenseness . My wretches on many occasions , be rais- birth was celebrated by the ...
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... common degrees of excellence minution of our lives , perhaps , often are attainable at a lower price ; he makes us insensible of the negli- that should steadily and resolutely gence with which we suffer them to assign to any science or ...
... common degrees of excellence minution of our lives , perhaps , often are attainable at a lower price ; he makes us insensible of the negli- that should steadily and resolutely gence with which we suffer them to assign to any science or ...
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... common life , that he has transmitted meditation ; and when a successful to us the most perfect delineation of attack on knowledge has been made , the manners of his age , he joined to the student recreates himself with his knowledge of ...
... common life , that he has transmitted meditation ; and when a successful to us the most perfect delineation of attack on knowledge has been made , the manners of his age , he joined to the student recreates himself with his knowledge of ...
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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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