Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations: Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons, Volume 5S. Walker, 1826 - English letters |
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the gray Thus God the Heaven created , thus the Earth , This said , he form'd thee , Adam ; thee , O Matter unform'd and void : darkness profound Man , Cover'd the abyss ; but on the watery calm Dust of the ground , and in thy nostrils ...
the gray Thus God the Heaven created , thus the Earth , This said , he form'd thee , Adam ; thee , O Matter unform'd and void : darkness profound Man , Cover'd the abyss ; but on the watery calm Dust of the ground , and in thy nostrils ...
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Of this heaven - labor'd form , erect , divine ; With joy , —with grief , that healing hand I This heaven - assum'd majestic robe of earth He deign'd to wear , who hung the vast expanse Ah ! too conspicuous ! it is fix'd on high !
Of this heaven - labor'd form , erect , divine ; With joy , —with grief , that healing hand I This heaven - assum'd majestic robe of earth He deign'd to wear , who hung the vast expanse Ah ! too conspicuous ! it is fix'd on high !
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his cross ; Ye brainless wits , ye baptiz'd infidels , Was then transferr'd to death ; and heaven's The ransom was paid down ; the fund of heaven duration Ain zing , and amaz'd , pour'd forth the price , Unalienably seal'd to this frail ...
his cross ; Ye brainless wits , ye baptiz'd infidels , Was then transferr'd to death ; and heaven's The ransom was paid down ; the fund of heaven duration Ain zing , and amaz'd , pour'd forth the price , Unalienably seal'd to this frail ...
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| Title | Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations: Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons, Volume 5 Volume 5 of Elegant Extracts, Or Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations, Vicesimus Knox Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations: Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons, James Gates Percival |
| Compiled by | Vicesimus Knox |
| Publisher | S. Walker, 1826 |
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