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 iii
... object in view , namely , to com- municate valuable instruction and rational entertainment to the youth of his country , at the same time that he supplied them with the best models of English composition . We have not ventured to change ...
... object in view , namely , to com- municate valuable instruction and rational entertainment to the youth of his country , at the same time that he supplied them with the best models of English composition . We have not ventured to change ...
Page iv
... object in preparing this work , to supply families with a set of volumes particularly calculated for the improvement of their younger members ; and although it has been our aim to retain or insert such articles only , as we thought to ...
... object in preparing this work , to supply families with a set of volumes particularly calculated for the improvement of their younger members ; and although it has been our aim to retain or insert such articles only , as we thought to ...
Page viii
... object , the public instructION of the middle and higher orders of society , to promote which has been the primary , and indeed the sole object of the Compiler . OF THE LATE REVEREND VICESIMUS KNOX , D. D. FORMERLY viii ADVERTISEMENT .
... object , the public instructION of the middle and higher orders of society , to promote which has been the primary , and indeed the sole object of the Compiler . OF THE LATE REVEREND VICESIMUS KNOX , D. D. FORMERLY viii ADVERTISEMENT .
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... object , nor occupied his thoughts . He was from conscientious conviction a firm friend of the establishment ; and his strenuous support of it excited the hostility of many of the most eminent separatists , who expressed , however , the ...
... object , nor occupied his thoughts . He was from conscientious conviction a firm friend of the establishment ; and his strenuous support of it excited the hostility of many of the most eminent separatists , who expressed , however , the ...
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... object of rational " " When the repast was over , " Tell desire . We entangle ourselves in me , " said the hermit , " by what business , immerge ourselves in lux- chance thou hast been brought hi - ury , and rove through the labyrinths ...
... object of rational " " When the repast was over , " Tell desire . We entangle ourselves in me , " said the hermit , " by what business , immerge ourselves in lux- chance thou hast been brought hi - ury , and rove through the labyrinths ...
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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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