Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... knowledge , before it can be read to satiety or entirely exhausted ; and it may properly be said to constitute , what it was intended to be , a portable library for learners from the age of nine or ten , to the age at which they leave ...
... knowledge , before it can be read to satiety or entirely exhausted ; and it may properly be said to constitute , what it was intended to be , a portable library for learners from the age of nine or ten , to the age at which they leave ...
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... Knowledge of the Use and Value of tion Ibid . 59 Ibid . 60 Spectator , 23 51 The Beginnings of Passion to bo opposed Ibid . 60 52 The Government of Temper as included in the Keeping of the Heart A peaceable Temper and condescending ...
... Knowledge of the Use and Value of tion Ibid . 59 Ibid . 60 Spectator , 23 51 The Beginnings of Passion to bo opposed Ibid . 60 52 The Government of Temper as included in the Keeping of the Heart A peaceable Temper and condescending ...
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... Knowledge in gene ral Robert Hall . 320 175 Influence of scepticism on Morals Ibid . 222 176 On the Influence of taste and sensibi- lity in matters of Religion Chalmers . 325 177 On the Influence of the dissipation of cities in ...
... Knowledge in gene ral Robert Hall . 320 175 Influence of scepticism on Morals Ibid . 222 176 On the Influence of taste and sensibi- lity in matters of Religion Chalmers . 325 177 On the Influence of the dissipation of cities in ...
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... knowledge and obser- 7. On the Immortality of the Soul . vation turn within a very narrow cir- I was yesterday walking alone in cle . But as God Almighty cannot one of my friend's woods , and lost but perceive and know every thing ...
... knowledge and obser- 7. On the Immortality of the Soul . vation turn within a very narrow cir- I was yesterday walking alone in cle . But as God Almighty cannot one of my friend's woods , and lost but perceive and know every thing ...
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... knowledge to knowledge ; state , seems only sent into the world carries in it something wonderfully to propagate his kind . He provides agreeable to that ambition which is himself with a successor , and imme- natural to the mind of man ...
... knowledge to knowledge ; state , seems only sent into the world carries in it something wonderfully to propagate his kind . He provides agreeable to that ambition which is himself with a successor , and imme- natural to the mind of man ...
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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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