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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... youth gradually brings forward ac- complished and flourishing manhood ; and such manhood passes of itself , without un- easiness , into respectable and tranquil old age . But when nature is turned out of its regular course , disorder ...
... youth gradually brings forward ac- complished and flourishing manhood ; and such manhood passes of itself , without un- easiness , into respectable and tranquil old age . But when nature is turned out of its regular course , disorder ...
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... youth , the habits of industry are most easily acquired : in youth the incentives to it are strongest , from ambition and from duty , from emu- lation and hope , from all the prospects which the beginning of life affords . If , dead to ...
... youth , the habits of industry are most easily acquired : in youth the incentives to it are strongest , from ambition and from duty , from emu- lation and hope , from all the prospects which the beginning of life affords . If , dead to ...
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... youth . If we do not , it is more than probable that we shall never do it : that we shall grow old in ignorance , by neglecting the one ; and old in vice by neglecting the other . For improvement in knowledge , youth is certainly the ...
... youth . If we do not , it is more than probable that we shall never do it : that we shall grow old in ignorance , by neglecting the one ; and old in vice by neglecting the other . For improvement in knowledge , youth is certainly the ...
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