Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... greatest Bless- proper Discharge of our Duties The Desire of Praise subservient to many valuable Purposes Ibid . 63 1 Ibid . 63 Ibid . 64 Gregory . 64 Ibid . 64 fidelity Ibid . 65 61 Religion considered as a Science Ibid . 44 62 ...
... greatest Bless- proper Discharge of our Duties The Desire of Praise subservient to many valuable Purposes Ibid . 63 1 Ibid . 63 Ibid . 64 Gregory . 64 Ibid . 64 fidelity Ibid . 65 61 Religion considered as a Science Ibid . 44 62 ...
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... greatest natural impediments to ways of employing his time to ad- oratory , but content myself with a vantage . If he makes no advances more modern and familiar instance . in wisdom , he will become more and Being at Sadler's Wells a ...
... greatest natural impediments to ways of employing his time to ad- oratory , but content myself with a vantage . If he makes no advances more modern and familiar instance . in wisdom , he will become more and Being at Sadler's Wells a ...
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... greatest genii that transports the stranger . But by de- have appeared in every age ; wander grees the sense grows callous , and through the delightful mazes of every we lose that exquisite relish of trifles , art and science , and as ...
... greatest genii that transports the stranger . But by de- have appeared in every age ; wander grees the sense grows callous , and through the delightful mazes of every we lose that exquisite relish of trifles , art and science , and as ...
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... greatest transports of mirth , who pleasures of the creation which are are subject to the greatest depres - poured about him , and does not feel sions of melancholy on the contra- the full weight of those accidental ry , cheerfulness ...
... greatest transports of mirth , who pleasures of the creation which are are subject to the greatest depres - poured about him , and does not feel sions of melancholy on the contra- the full weight of those accidental ry , cheerfulness ...
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... greatest forfeited the reputation of his integri- trust and confidence in him , which ty , he is set fast , and nothing will is an unspeakable advantage in the then serve his turn , neither truth nor business and affairs of life ...
... greatest forfeited the reputation of his integri- trust and confidence in him , which ty , he is set fast , and nothing will is an unspeakable advantage in the then serve his turn , neither truth nor business and affairs of life ...
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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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