Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... Soul 8 Duty of Children to their Parents 9 Strength of Parental Affection 10 Remarks on the Swiftness of Time 11 Folly of mis - spending Time · • Page . Tottie . 55 Ibid . 56 Blair . 57 Ibid . 57 Ibid . 58 43 Valuable Opportunities once ...
... Soul 8 Duty of Children to their Parents 9 Strength of Parental Affection 10 Remarks on the Swiftness of Time 11 Folly of mis - spending Time · • Page . Tottie . 55 Ibid . 56 Blair . 57 Ibid . 57 Ibid . 58 43 Valuable Opportunities once ...
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... soul without willing to inquire whether another education like marble in the quarry , advance cannot be made , and whe- which shows none of its inherent ther we may not , at least , turn our beauties , until the skill of the polish ...
... soul without willing to inquire whether another education like marble in the quarry , advance cannot be made , and whe- which shows none of its inherent ther we may not , at least , turn our beauties , until the skill of the polish ...
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... soul . I have been here speaking ; as those The philosopher , the saint , or the who have had the advantages of a hero , the wise , the good , or the great more liberal education , rise above man , very often lie hid and concealed one ...
... soul . I have been here speaking ; as those The philosopher , the saint , or the who have had the advantages of a hero , the wise , the good , or the great more liberal education , rise above man , very often lie hid and concealed one ...
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... 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 myself in it very agreeably , as I was in which he ...
... 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 myself in it very agreeably , as I was in which he ...
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... soul , which is capable of such im- give us talents that are not to be ex- mense perfections , and of receiving erted ? capacities that are never to new improvements to all eternity , be gratified ? How can we find that shall fall away ...
... soul , which is capable of such im- give us talents that are not to be ex- mense perfections , and of receiving erted ? capacities that are never to new improvements to all eternity , be gratified ? How can we find that shall fall away ...
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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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