Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... greater part is covered by however importunate , are too often the uninhabitable ocean ; that of the vain ; and that many who mark with rest , some is encumbered with naked such accuracy the course of time , mountains , and some lost ...
... greater part is covered by however importunate , are too often the uninhabitable ocean ; that of the vain ; and that many who mark with rest , some is encumbered with naked such accuracy the course of time , mountains , and some lost ...
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... greater alacrity than when it without regard to literature . is glutted with ideal pleasures , and An Italian philosopher expressed surfeited with intemperance of appli- in his motto , that time was his estate ; cation . He that will ...
... greater alacrity than when it without regard to literature . is glutted with ideal pleasures , and An Italian philosopher expressed surfeited with intemperance of appli- in his motto , that time was his estate ; cation . He that will ...
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... use them ; whereas in- tegrity gains strength by use ; and 18. On Truth and Sincerity . Truth and reality have all the ad- the more and longer any man prac tiseth it , the greater service it does not believed 34 [ BOOK I. ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
... use them ; whereas in- tegrity gains strength by use ; and 18. On Truth and Sincerity . Truth and reality have all the ad- the more and longer any man prac tiseth it , the greater service it does not believed 34 [ BOOK I. ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
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... greater service it does not believed when he speaks truth , him , by confirming his reputation , nor trusted perhaps when he means and encouraging those with whom honestly . When a man has once he hath to do to repose the greatest ...
... greater service it does not believed when he speaks truth , him , by confirming his reputation , nor trusted perhaps when he means and encouraging those with whom honestly . When a man has once he hath to do to repose the greatest ...
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... greater freedoms , and livelihood , but continue to feed them quitting her care for above two hours if they are tied ... greater motives to love time of reckoning , the young one and tenderness , than safety , benefits , does not make ...
... greater freedoms , and livelihood , but continue to feed them quitting her care for above two hours if they are tied ... greater motives to love time of reckoning , the young one and tenderness , than safety , benefits , does not make ...
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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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