Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... whole face the like cares and passions that infest of the ocean appears spotted as far human life . as thou canst see , are more in num- I here fetched a deep sigh : Alas , ber than the sands on the sea - shore ; said I , man was made ...
... whole face the like cares and passions that infest of the ocean appears spotted as far human life . as thou canst see , are more in num- I here fetched a deep sigh : Alas , ber than the sands on the sea - shore ; said I , man was made ...
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... whole , it would scarce it . The galaxy appeared in its most make a blank in the creation . The beautiful white . To complete the chasm would be imperceptible to an scene , the full moon arose at length eye , that could take in the whole ...
... whole , it would scarce it . The galaxy appeared in its most make a blank in the creation . The beautiful white . To complete the chasm would be imperceptible to an scene , the full moon arose at length eye , that could take in the whole ...
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... whole that it took its rise from those nar- frame of nature . His creation , and row conceptions , which we are apt every part of it , is full of him . There to entertain of the divine nature . is nothing he has made , that is either We ...
... whole that it took its rise from those nar- frame of nature . His creation , and row conceptions , which we are apt every part of it , is full of him . There to entertain of the divine nature . is nothing he has made , that is either We ...
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... whole of life is allowed most industrious temper , and find a by every one to be short , the several man business more than the most ac- divisions of it appear long and tedi- tive station of life . To advise the ous . We are for ...
... whole of life is allowed most industrious temper , and find a by every one to be short , the several man business more than the most ac- divisions of it appear long and tedi- tive station of life . To advise the ous . We are for ...
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... whole universe for which reason , the poets ascribe is a kind of theatre filled with ob- to this particular colour the epithet jects that either raise in us pleasure , of cheerful . amusement , or admiration . To consider further this ...
... whole universe for which reason , the poets ascribe is a kind of theatre filled with ob- to this particular colour the epithet jects that either raise in us pleasure , of cheerful . amusement , or admiration . To consider further this ...
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