Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page iv
... taste , yet we have sought rather to provide the public in general with a useful and entertaining manual , than to ad- minister to the peculiar gratification of the literary . BOSTON , JUNE 1 , 1825 . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE TENTH ENGLISH ...
... taste , yet we have sought rather to provide the public in general with a useful and entertaining manual , than to ad- minister to the peculiar gratification of the literary . BOSTON , JUNE 1 , 1825 . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE TENTH ENGLISH ...
Page v
... taste and general literature ; and , which is of much higher importance , they cannot fail to imbibe from it , together with an increase of elegant knowledge , the purest principles of virtue and religion . It may be employed in various ...
... taste and general literature ; and , which is of much higher importance , they cannot fail to imbibe from it , together with an increase of elegant knowledge , the purest principles of virtue and religion . It may be employed in various ...
Page vi
... taste , and virtue . The Public have , in- deed , already felt , and acknowledged its utility , by the least fallible proof , their general reception of it . It has been adopted in all the most respectable places of education , and has ...
... taste , and virtue . The Public have , in- deed , already felt , and acknowledged its utility , by the least fallible proof , their general reception of it . It has been adopted in all the most respectable places of education , and has ...
Page viii
... taste for POETRY , it is right in this place to mention , that there is published by the Proprietors of this Book a volume of Poetry , similar to this in size and form ; and as he may also wish to improve himself in the very useful art ...
... taste for POETRY , it is right in this place to mention , that there is published by the Proprietors of this Book a volume of Poetry , similar to this in size and form ; and as he may also wish to improve himself in the very useful art ...
Page ix
... taste for the charms of literature , as well as much urbanity , which he was very successful in imparting among his pupils . At this time that amiable man and elegant scholar , Dr. Jortin , took great notice of the subject of this ...
... taste for the charms of literature , as well as much urbanity , which he was very successful in imparting among his pupils . At this time that amiable man and elegant scholar , Dr. Jortin , took great notice of the subject of this ...
Contents
80 | |
83 | |
89 | |
95 | |
101 | |
118 | |
125 | |
131 | |
139 | |
145 | |
158 | |
160 | |
167 | |
175 | |
181 | |
189 | |
200 | |
210 | |
26 | |
32 | |
38 | |
125 | |
136 | |
142 | |
144 | |
150 | |
157 | |
183 | |
190 | |
197 | |
204 | |
213 | |
219 | |
237 | |
244 | |
250 | |
Other editions - View all
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 |
Common terms and phrases
affections appear bad company beauty blessings cerning character Christ Christian Cicero consider corrupt death Demosthenes disciples divine doctrine duty earth endeavour eternal evil excellent eyes faith favour folly friends genius gion give gospel Greece happiness hath heart heaven holy honour hope human idolatry imagination irreligion Jesus Jews kind knowledge labour less ligion live Livy look mankind manner means ment mind moral nation nature nerally ness never object observe ornament ourselves Pacuvius passions perfect persons philosophers piety pleasure poetry poets present principles proper racter reason regard religion revelation Roman Rome Scriptures sense sentiments sion Socrates soul speak spirit Statius Style suffer Tacitus tain taste temper temple Thebaid thee thing thou thought tion true truth tural ture vice VICESIMUS KNOX Virgil virtue whole wisdom wise words worship writing youth