Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... Human Life 4 Advantages of a good Education 5 Disadvantages of a bad Education 6 Omniscience and Omnipresence of the ... Humanity 30 Courtesy and engaging Manners 31 Temperance in Pleasure recommended 32 Whatever violates Nature cannot ...
... Human Life 4 Advantages of a good Education 5 Disadvantages of a bad Education 6 Omniscience and Omnipresence of the ... Humanity 30 Courtesy and engaging Manners 31 Temperance in Pleasure recommended 32 Whatever violates Nature cannot ...
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... Human Life . thing I had ever heard : they put me in mind of those heavenly airs that On the fifth day of the moon , which , are played to the departed souls of according to the custom of my fore- good men upon their first arrival in ...
... Human Life . thing I had ever heard : they put me in mind of those heavenly airs that On the fifth day of the moon , which , are played to the departed souls of according to the custom of my fore- good men upon their first arrival in ...
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... human voices , and mu- Upon looking up , What mean , said I , sical instruments . Gladness grew in those great flights of birds that are me at the discovery of so delightful perpetually hovering about the bridge , a scene . I wished for ...
... human voices , and mu- Upon looking up , What mean , said I , sical instruments . Gladness grew in those great flights of birds that are me at the discovery of so delightful perpetually hovering about the bridge , a scene . I wished for ...
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... human life is the journey of a day . shall remember , that though the day We rise in the morning of youth , full is past , and their strength is wasted , of vigour , and full of expectation ; there yet remains one effort to be we set ...
... human life is the journey of a day . shall remember , that though the day We rise in the morning of youth , full is past , and their strength is wasted , of vigour , and full of expectation ; there yet remains one effort to be we set ...
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... human soul . I have been here speaking ; as those The philosopher , the saint , or the who have had the advantages of a hero , the wise , the good , or the great more liberal education , rise above man , very often lie hid and concealed ...
... human soul . I have been here speaking ; as those The philosopher , the saint , or the who have had the advantages of a hero , the wise , the good , or the great more liberal education , rise above man , very often lie hid and concealed ...
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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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