Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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Page v
... matter is therefore collected in this one Volume , great enough to fill up a considerable time and furnish an abundance of knowledge , before it can be read to satiety or entirely exhausted ; and it may properly be said to constitute ...
... matter is therefore collected in this one Volume , great enough to fill up a considerable time and furnish an abundance of knowledge , before it can be read to satiety or entirely exhausted ; and it may properly be said to constitute ...
Page vi
... matter for practice , rather than systematic instruction , which may be more advantageously given Vivá Voce , by him who is able to enforce and illustrate his rules by his example . To learn the practice of speaking in public , or the ...
... matter for practice , rather than systematic instruction , which may be more advantageously given Vivá Voce , by him who is able to enforce and illustrate his rules by his example . To learn the practice of speaking in public , or the ...
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... matter in terms of high panegyric , and predicted the future fame of the author ; while the favourable reception given to it by the public has been almost unexampled . The work was subsequently extended to three volumes , and the name ...
... matter in terms of high panegyric , and predicted the future fame of the author ; while the favourable reception given to it by the public has been almost unexampled . The work was subsequently extended to three volumes , and the name ...
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... matter was always excellent , and his manner possessed a dignity , propriety , and impressiveness , that invariably riveted the attention of his congregations . The politics of Dr. Knox were decidedly those of the Whigs . His steadi ...
... matter was always excellent , and his manner possessed a dignity , propriety , and impressiveness , that invariably riveted the attention of his congregations . The politics of Dr. Knox were decidedly those of the Whigs . His steadi ...
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... matter , and re- confessed there are , even in these moves the rubbish . The figure is in parts , several poor uninstructed per- the stone , and the sculptor only finds sons , who are but little above the it . What sculpture is to a ...
... matter , and re- confessed there are , even in these moves the rubbish . The figure is in parts , several poor uninstructed per- the stone , and the sculptor only finds sons , who are but little above the it . What sculpture is to a ...
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Elegant Extracts, Or Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry (Classic Reprint) Vicesimus Knox No preview available - 2018 |
Elegant Extracts, Or Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry (Classic Reprint) Vicesimus Knox No preview available - 2017 |
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