Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... writing , that there is also provided a most copious volume of Letters from the best English authors , under the title of ELEGANT EPISTLES . This whole Set of Extracts , more copious , more convenient in its form , and valuable in its ...
... writing , that there is also provided a most copious volume of Letters from the best English authors , under the title of ELEGANT EPISTLES . This whole Set of Extracts , more copious , more convenient in its form , and valuable in its ...
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... writer with the English Classics . Our limited space does not allow of a detailed examination of the different papers , and we therefore merely state , that they contain a happy mixture of the best style of our most celebrated authors ...
... writer with the English Classics . Our limited space does not allow of a detailed examination of the different papers , and we therefore merely state , that they contain a happy mixture of the best style of our most celebrated authors ...
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... writing , reading , and arithmetic , under the same roof , to an humbler class of scholars , out of the funds ... writer , and a specimen of the energy of his mind . Dr. Knox left Tunbridge in 1812 , where he was succeeded in the school ...
... writing , reading , and arithmetic , under the same roof , to an humbler class of scholars , out of the funds ... writer , and a specimen of the energy of his mind . Dr. Knox left Tunbridge in 1812 , where he was succeeded in the school ...
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... Writers Ibid . 378 Ibid . 352 69 A short commendation of the Latin Language Ibid . 381 Ibid . 353 70 Directions in ... writing Letters must not dege- Ibid . 362 nerate to carelessness Ibid . 386 Ibid . 386 Ibid . 375 Page . Blair . 392 ...
... Writers Ibid . 378 Ibid . 352 69 A short commendation of the Latin Language Ibid . 381 Ibid . 353 70 Directions in ... writing Letters must not dege- Ibid . 362 nerate to carelessness Ibid . 386 Ibid . 386 Ibid . 375 Page . Blair . 392 ...
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... writing a good play , dren , while , perhaps , we were some- fit to undertake a work wherein times laughing at the old folks at Parents . another end of the house . The truth such a 16 [ BOOK I. ELEGANT EXTRACTS . Duty of Children to ...
... writing a good play , dren , while , perhaps , we were some- fit to undertake a work wherein times laughing at the old folks at Parents . another end of the house . The truth such a 16 [ BOOK I. ELEGANT EXTRACTS . Duty of Children to ...
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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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