Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... light is not yet travelled down to us whom there is no shadow of imper- since their first creation . There is fection . Our reason indeed assures no question but the universe has cer- us , that his attributes are infinite : tain bounds ...
... light is not yet travelled down to us whom there is no shadow of imper- since their first creation . There is fection . Our reason indeed assures no question but the universe has cer- us , that his attributes are infinite : tain bounds ...
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... light of mere innocence , or the lapidary adulation of modern epi- abstaining from harm ; but as the taphs . Connoisseur . exertion of our faculties in doing good as Titus , when he had let a day slip undistinguished by some act of ...
... light of mere innocence , or the lapidary adulation of modern epi- abstaining from harm ; but as the taphs . Connoisseur . exertion of our faculties in doing good as Titus , when he had let a day slip undistinguished by some act of ...
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... light of those affections , as the Father of the what the rest of mankind revere . At universe , and the Author of all feli- the same time , you are not to ima- city ? Unmoved by veneration , can gine , that when exhorted to be reli ...
... light of those affections , as the Father of the what the rest of mankind revere . At universe , and the Author of all feli- the same time , you are not to ima- city ? Unmoved by veneration , can gine , that when exhorted to be reli ...
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... light , however dark , unsubstantial , deceive the time , or , to speak more and empty in itself . But nothing can properly , to deceive themselves , the shine with undiminished lustre , but length of a day will seem tedious to religion ...
... light , however dark , unsubstantial , deceive the time , or , to speak more and empty in itself . But nothing can properly , to deceive themselves , the shine with undiminished lustre , but length of a day will seem tedious to religion ...
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... light of a bright imagination stances of piety and charity ; there- playing before them . Perhaps they fore they may throw them away in a have too much life and spirit to have round of impertinence , vanity , and patience enough to go ...
... light of a bright imagination stances of piety and charity ; there- playing before them . Perhaps they fore they may throw them away in a have too much life and spirit to have round of impertinence , vanity , and patience enough to go ...
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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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