Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... less conversant with the writers of France , Italy , and Spain , than with those of his own country . It is unnecessary to attempt a delineation of the qualities that adorned his private character . The sentiments in all his works which ...
... less conversant with the writers of France , Italy , and Spain , than with those of his own country . It is unnecessary to attempt a delineation of the qualities that adorned his private character . The sentiments in all his works which ...
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... less to expect destruction sue their course without any other than those to whom it was most deviation . dreadful ; they all had the art of con- Reason was too often prevailed cealing their danger from them- upon so far by these ...
... less to expect destruction sue their course without any other than those to whom it was most deviation . dreadful ; they all had the art of con- Reason was too often prevailed cealing their danger from them- upon so far by these ...
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... less of trouble and happiness , in all the enjoyments difficulty , of entanglement and per- which the creatures can afford us , plexity , of danger and hazard in it , might be led to seek it in the enjoy- it is the shortest and nearest ...
... less of trouble and happiness , in all the enjoyments difficulty , of entanglement and per- which the creatures can afford us , plexity , of danger and hazard in it , might be led to seek it in the enjoy- it is the shortest and nearest ...
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... less to myself : Cosrou , thou hast done astonished than if a mountain had well to renounce the tumult , the bu- been overturned at my feet . I hum- siness , and vanities of life : but thou bled myself in the dust ; I returned to hast ...
... less to myself : Cosrou , thou hast done astonished than if a mountain had well to renounce the tumult , the bu- been overturned at my feet . I hum- siness , and vanities of life : but thou bled myself in the dust ; I returned to hast ...
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... less than admiration you will , in time , lose the very power will content them . To gain the of using them . good - will of mankind , by being use- ful to them , is in their opinion , a poor , low , grovelling aim ; their ambition is ...
... less than admiration you will , in time , lose the very power will content them . To gain the of using them . good - will of mankind , by being use- ful to them , is in their opinion , a poor , low , grovelling aim ; their ambition is ...
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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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