Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... Virtue Seed . 49 73 The Temple of Vanity 74 The Temple of Avarice Ibid . 50 75 The virtue of Gentleness not to be con- founded with artificial and insincere Politeness Horne . 75 Tatler . 76 Ibid . 76 Ibid . 77 Ibid . 78 Ibid . 78 Ibid ...
... Virtue Seed . 49 73 The Temple of Vanity 74 The Temple of Avarice Ibid . 50 75 The virtue of Gentleness not to be con- founded with artificial and insincere Politeness Horne . 75 Tatler . 76 Ibid . 76 Ibid . 77 Ibid . 78 Ibid . 78 Ibid ...
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... virtue in in the first stage of his existence , in which they excelled , are distributed his setting out for eternity ; but cast among these several islands , which thine eye on that thick mist into abound with pleasures of different ...
... virtue in in the first stage of his existence , in which they excelled , are distributed his setting out for eternity ; but cast among these several islands , which thine eye on that thick mist into abound with pleasures of different ...
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... virtue . Happy escape of this day , sink deep into are they , my son , who shall learn thy heart . Remember , my son ... virtue , which we , when it works upon a noble mind , for a while , keep in our sight , and draws out to view every ...
... virtue . Happy escape of this day , sink deep into are they , my son , who shall learn thy heart . Remember , my son ... virtue , which we , when it works upon a noble mind , for a while , keep in our sight , and draws out to view every ...
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... virtues figure ; sometimes we see the man which are wild and uncultivated ; appearing distinctly in all his limbs to ... virtue and understanding , that should only set an insignificant fine they declared themselves determined upon the ...
... virtues figure ; sometimes we see the man which are wild and uncultivated ; appearing distinctly in all his limbs to ... virtue and understanding , that should only set an insignificant fine they declared themselves determined upon the ...
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... virtue , The minor longs to be at age , then in the most general acceptation of to be a man of business , then to the word . That particular scheme make up an estate , then to arrive at which comprehends the social vir- honours , then ...
... virtue , The minor longs to be at age , then in the most general acceptation of to be a man of business , then to the word . That particular scheme make up an estate , then to arrive at which comprehends the social vir- honours , then ...
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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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