Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... spirit of emulation among the students , which the recent statutable regulations have produced . Had his life been spared , he would , probably , in a new edition of this work , have expunged many of those strictures , which he ...
... spirit of emulation among the students , which the recent statutable regulations have produced . Had his life been spared , he would , probably , in a new edition of this work , have expunged many of those strictures , which he ...
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... spirit of the Gospel , to impose civil disabilities upon so many millions of the Christian subjects of the united kingdom , merely be- cause they remained faithful to the religion of their forefathers . Dr. Knox possessed extraordinary ...
... spirit of the Gospel , to impose civil disabilities upon so many millions of the Christian subjects of the united kingdom , merely be- cause they remained faithful to the religion of their forefathers . Dr. Knox possessed extraordinary ...
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... spirit and hope , made ; that reformation is never with gaiety and with diligence , and hopeless , nor sincere endeavours travel on a while in the straight road ever unassisted ; that the wanderer of piety towards the mansions of rest ...
... spirit and hope , made ; that reformation is never with gaiety and with diligence , and hopeless , nor sincere endeavours travel on a while in the straight road ever unassisted ; that the wanderer of piety towards the mansions of rest ...
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... spirits ed to us endowed only with those which are employed in sight ; on the real qualities which it actually pos- contrary , those that are more obscure sesses , it would have made but a do not give the animal spirits a suffi- very ...
... spirits ed to us endowed only with those which are employed in sight ; on the real qualities which it actually pos- contrary , those that are more obscure sesses , it would have made but a do not give the animal spirits a suffi- very ...
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... spirit which it inspires , the important period as the highest trust ardour of diligence which it quick- which shall ever be committed to ens , the freedom which it procures you ; as , in a great measure , decisive from pernicious and ...
... spirit which it inspires , the important period as the highest trust ardour of diligence which it quick- which shall ever be committed to ens , the freedom which it procures you ; as , in a great measure , decisive from pernicious and ...
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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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