Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... tion Ibid . 59 Ibid . 60 Spectator , 23 51 The Beginnings of Passion to bo opposed Ibid . 60 52 The Government of Temper as included in the Keeping of the Heart A peaceable Temper and condescending Manners recommended Time very ...
... tion Ibid . 59 Ibid . 60 Spectator , 23 51 The Beginnings of Passion to bo opposed Ibid . 60 52 The Government of Temper as included in the Keeping of the Heart A peaceable Temper and condescending Manners recommended Time very ...
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... tion - bad company injures our charac- ters as well as manners - presumption the forerunner of ruin - the advantages of good company equal to the disad- vantages of bad - cautions in forming intimacies 89 Religion the best and only ...
... tion - bad company injures our charac- ters as well as manners - presumption the forerunner of ruin - the advantages of good company equal to the disad- vantages of bad - cautions in forming intimacies 89 Religion the best and only ...
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... tion that cleaves in some degree to to itself . It would be an imperfec- creatures of the highest capacities , tion in him , were he able to move as they are creatures , that is , beings out of one place into another , or to of finite ...
... tion that cleaves in some degree to to itself . It would be an imperfec- creatures of the highest capacities , tion in him , were he able to move as they are creatures , that is , beings out of one place into another , or to of finite ...
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... tion , that they did not regard , before those whom they offended were to be $ 8. The Duty of Children to their no more seen . How many thousand things do I remember , which would I am the happy father of a very have highly pleased my ...
... tion , that they did not regard , before those whom they offended were to be $ 8. The Duty of Children to their no more seen . How many thousand things do I remember , which would I am the happy father of a very have highly pleased my ...
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... 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 course of time is so visibly and " the night cometh , when no marked ...
... 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 course of time is so visibly and " the night cometh , when no marked ...
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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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