Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... strength of reasoning and brilliancy of style can be compared with this pamphlet . It may be taken as a standard of his powers as a writer , and a specimen of the energy of his mind . Dr. Knox left Tunbridge in 1812 , where he was ...
... strength of reasoning and brilliancy of style can be compared with this pamphlet . It may be taken as a standard of his powers as a writer , and a specimen of the energy of his mind . Dr. Knox left Tunbridge in 1812 , where he was ...
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... strength and facility as before , but awaked . Rambler . floated along timorously and feebly , endangered by every breeze , and shattered by every ruffle of the water , till they sunk , by slow degrees , after long struggles and ...
... strength and facility as before , but awaked . Rambler . floated along timorously and feebly , endangered by every breeze , and shattered by every ruffle of the water , till they sunk , by slow degrees , after long struggles and ...
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... strength is wasted , of vigour , and full of expectation ; there yet remains one effort to be we set forward with spirit and hope , made ; that reformation is never with gaiety and with diligence , and hopeless , nor sincere endeavours ...
... strength is wasted , of vigour , and full of expectation ; there yet remains one effort to be we set forward with spirit and hope , made ; that reformation is never with gaiety and with diligence , and hopeless , nor sincere endeavours ...
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... strength to strength , coveries of his infinite goodness , to consider that she is to shine for wisdom , and power , must perish at ever with new accessions of glory , her first setting out , and in the very and brighten to all eternity ...
... strength to strength , coveries of his infinite goodness , to consider that she is to shine for wisdom , and power , must perish at ever with new accessions of glory , her first setting out , and in the very and brighten to all eternity ...
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... Strength of Parental Af- blessings on the son , and the son en- deavouring to appear the worthy off- I went the other day to visit Eliza , spring of such a father . It is after who , in the perfect bloom of beauty , this manner that ...
... Strength of Parental Af- blessings on the son , and the son en- deavouring to appear the worthy off- I went the other day to visit Eliza , spring of such a father . It is after who , in the perfect bloom of beauty , this manner that ...
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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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