Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... passions that infest of the ocean appears spotted as far human life . as thou canst see , are more in num- I here fetched a deep sigh : Alas , ber than the sands on the sea - shore ; said I , man was made in vain ! how there are myriads ...
... passions that infest of the ocean appears spotted as far human life . as thou canst see , are more in num- I here fetched a deep sigh : Alas , ber than the sands on the sea - shore ; said I , man was made in vain ! how there are myriads ...
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... passions operate variously , could not give several nice touches and appear in different kinds of ac- and finishings . tions , according as they are more or less rectified and swayed by reason . When one hears of negroes , who up- on ...
... passions operate variously , could not give several nice touches and appear in different kinds of ac- and finishings . tions , according as they are more or less rectified and swayed by reason . When one hears of negroes , who up- on ...
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... passions and because he is concealed from us . sentiments , as particularly from its " Oh that I knew where I might find love of existence , its horror of anni- him ! ( says Job . ) Behold I go for- hilation , and its hopes of ...
... passions and because he is concealed from us . sentiments , as particularly from its " Oh that I knew where I might find love of existence , its horror of anni- him ! ( says Job . ) Behold I go for- hilation , and its hopes of ...
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... knowledge , has not time to subdue cherubim , which now appears as a his passions , establish his soul in vir- God to a human soul , knows very well that the period will come about there will necessarily BOOK I. ] 15 MORAL AND RELIGIOUS .
... knowledge , has not time to subdue cherubim , which now appears as a his passions , establish his soul in vir- God to a human soul , knows very well that the period will come about there will necessarily BOOK I. ] 15 MORAL AND RELIGIOUS .
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... passions can possibly excite . " ing answers to the spring , and the Spectator . spring to childhood and youth ; the noon corresponds to the summer , and the summer to the strength of Time . 10. Remarks on the Swiftness of manhood . The ...
... passions can possibly excite . " ing answers to the spring , and the Spectator . spring to childhood and youth ; the noon corresponds to the summer , and the summer to the strength of Time . 10. Remarks on the Swiftness of manhood . The ...
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