Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... give means of obtaining the same end . way before him . Go now , my son , We then relax our vigour , and re- to thy repose ; commit thyself to the solve no longer to be terrified with care of Omnipotence ; and when the crimes at a ...
... give means of obtaining the same end . way before him . Go now , my son , We then relax our vigour , and re- to thy repose ; commit thyself to the solve no longer to be terrified with care of Omnipotence ; and when the crimes at a ...
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... give you a critical essay up- will never have diligence enough to on the use and abuse of time ; I follow it : he can succeed in no un- will only give you some hints , with dertaking , for he will never pursue regard to the use of one ...
... give you a critical essay up- will never have diligence enough to on the use and abuse of time ; I follow it : he can succeed in no un- will only give you some hints , with dertaking , for he will never pursue regard to the use of one ...
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... give it a taste for fluenced by the nearer examples of those entertainments which afford a degenerate age . the highest transport , without the In the morning of life , when the grossness or remorse that attend vul- soul first makes her ...
... give it a taste for fluenced by the nearer examples of those entertainments which afford a degenerate age . the highest transport , without the In the morning of life , when the grossness or remorse that attend vul- soul first makes her ...
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... give the animal spirits a suffi- very joyless and uncomfortable fi- cient exercise ' ; whereas , the rays gure ; and why has Providence given that produce in us the idea of green , it a power of producing in us such fall upon the eye in ...
... give the animal spirits a suffi- very joyless and uncomfortable fi- cient exercise ' ; whereas , the rays gure ; and why has Providence given that produce in us the idea of green , it a power of producing in us such fall upon the eye in ...
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... give to your desires and passions , with distinction , in every public sta- the direction is likely to continue . tion . The vigour which it gives the It will form the channel in which mind , and the weight which it adds your life is to ...
... give to your desires and passions , with distinction , in every public sta- the direction is likely to continue . tion . The vigour which it gives the It will form the channel in which mind , and the weight which it adds your life is to ...
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