Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in PoetryVicesimus Knox J. Johnson, 1808 - 1페이지 An anthology of prose passages primarily from Greek, Roman, and English authors. |
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... excellent discoveries of the quence , I mean not an artificial composure divine nature and perfections , if there be of words , but the gravity , weight , and not far more excellent directions and persuasiveness of the matter contained ...
... excellent discoveries of the quence , I mean not an artificial composure divine nature and perfections , if there be of words , but the gravity , weight , and not far more excellent directions and persuasiveness of the matter contained ...
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... excellent natural endowments , without improvement . In those countries , which we call barbarous , where art and politeness are not understood , nature hath the greater advantage in this , that sim plicity of manners often secures the ...
... excellent natural endowments , without improvement . In those countries , which we call barbarous , where art and politeness are not understood , nature hath the greater advantage in this , that sim plicity of manners often secures the ...
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... excellent Rules for Conversation . The best Classics lay down very valu- able rules for the management of conver- sation , for graceful and proper address to those persons with whom we converse . They instruct their readers in the ...
... excellent Rules for Conversation . The best Classics lay down very valu- able rules for the management of conver- sation , for graceful and proper address to those persons with whom we converse . They instruct their readers in the ...
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