Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... Manners recommended Time very important to Youth Chesterfield . 26 Connoisseur . 26 53 14 Bad Effects of Indolence 15 The innocent Pleasures of Childhood · 16 On Cheerfulness 17 On the Advantages of a cheerful Temper Ibid . 32 55 18 On ...
... Manners recommended Time very important to Youth Chesterfield . 26 Connoisseur . 26 53 14 Bad Effects of Indolence 15 The innocent Pleasures of Childhood · 16 On Cheerfulness 17 On the Advantages of a cheerful Temper Ibid . 32 55 18 On ...
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... manners 63 Enthusiasm less pernicious to the Mind , than Coldness and Indifference in Re- ligion Mrs. Chapone . 84 84 Of the Difference between the Extreme of Negligence and Rigour in Religion Ibid . 86 85 On Gratitude Spectator . 89 86 ...
... manners 63 Enthusiasm less pernicious to the Mind , than Coldness and Indifference in Re- ligion Mrs. Chapone . 84 84 Of the Difference between the Extreme of Negligence and Rigour in Religion Ibid . 86 85 On Gratitude Spectator . 89 86 ...
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... manner . They therefore houses , and danced at court , and agreed , that a domestic tutor should were both expert in the games that be procured ; and hired an honest were in their times called in as gentleman of mean conversation and ...
... manner . They therefore houses , and danced at court , and agreed , that a domestic tutor should were both expert in the games that be procured ; and hired an honest were in their times called in as gentleman of mean conversation and ...
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... manners of a kingdom , their charac- that resignation to decay is too diffi - ters have on all who live within the cult ... manner that Camillus and his is the mother of several children . first - born dwell together . Camillus She had a ...
... manners of a kingdom , their charac- that resignation to decay is too diffi - ters have on all who live within the cult ... manner that Camillus and his is the mother of several children . first - born dwell together . Camillus She had a ...
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... manner in which you employ the there are millions , to prove , at once , intermediate time . I think I offer the value and the fleetness of time . you a very good bargain , when I pro- The sun - dials , likewise , all over Eu- mise you ...
... manner in which you employ the there are millions , to prove , at once , intermediate time . I think I offer the value and the fleetness of time . you a very good bargain , when I pro- The sun - dials , likewise , all over Eu- mise you ...
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