Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... thing it contem- goodness , with an infinite space to plates , till our reason comes again to exert itself in , how can our imagina- our succour , and throws down all tion set any bounds to it ? those little prejudices which rise in To ...
... thing it contem- goodness , with an infinite space to plates , till our reason comes again to exert itself in , how can our imagina- our succour , and throws down all tion set any bounds to it ? those little prejudices which rise in To ...
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... thing from the value of his benefac- compare the time which is already tion . And let him who proposes his lost with that which may probably own happiness , reflect , that while he remain . forms his purpose the day rolls on , But the ...
... thing from the value of his benefac- compare the time which is already tion . And let him who proposes his lost with that which may probably own happiness , reflect , that while he remain . forms his purpose the day rolls on , But the ...
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... thing that I would have tion to that effect ; so that nobody you do , till you are eighteen , I will squanders away their time , without do every thing that you would have hearing and seeing , daily , how ne- me do , ever afterwards ...
... thing that I would have tion to that effect ; so that nobody you do , till you are eighteen , I will squanders away their time , without do every thing that you would have hearing and seeing , daily , how ne- me do , ever afterwards ...
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... thing be the fields , " & c . good for any thing , I am sure since- Every one ought to fence against rity is better : for why does any man the temper of his climate or consti- dissemble , or seem to be that which he tution , and ...
... thing be the fields , " & c . good for any thing , I am sure since- Every one ought to fence against rity is better : for why does any man the temper of his climate or consti- dissemble , or seem to be that which he tution , and ...
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... thing ; nothing less than admiration you will , in time , lose the very power will content them . To gain the of using them . good - will of mankind , by being use- ful to them , is in their opinion , a poor , low , grovelling aim ...
... thing ; nothing less than admiration you will , in time , lose the very power will content them . To gain the of using them . good - will of mankind , by being use- ful to them , is in their opinion , a poor , low , grovelling aim ...
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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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