Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... true Pleasure 33 Industry and Application 34 The Employment of Time 35 Necessity of an early and close Applica- tion to Wisdom · 36 The Unhappiness consequent on the Neg- lect of early improving the Mind 37 Great Talents not requisite ...
... true Pleasure 33 Industry and Application 34 The Employment of Time 35 Necessity of an early and close Applica- tion to Wisdom · 36 The Unhappiness consequent on the Neg- lect of early improving the Mind 37 Great Talents not requisite ...
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... to do justice to minds as successfully , as Madam himself , must inevitably wrong those Catharina distorts her body . with whom he is connected ; and it is by no means a true maxim , that gyric BOOK 1. ] MORAL AND RELIGIOUS . 27.
... to do justice to minds as successfully , as Madam himself , must inevitably wrong those Catharina distorts her body . with whom he is connected ; and it is by no means a true maxim , that gyric BOOK 1. ] MORAL AND RELIGIOUS . 27.
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... true estimate of religious deportment . themselves . But there is another kind of hypo- In the first place , let them consi- crisy , which differs from both of der well , what are the characters these , and which I intend to make which ...
... true estimate of religious deportment . themselves . But there is another kind of hypo- In the first place , let them consi- crisy , which differs from both of der well , what are the characters these , and which I intend to make which ...
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... true religion you ? Happy in the love and affec- breathes gentleness and affability . It tion of those with whom you are con- gives a native unaffected ease to the nected , look up to the Supreme Be- behaviour . It is social , kind ...
... true religion you ? Happy in the love and affec- breathes gentleness and affability . It tion of those with whom you are con- gives a native unaffected ease to the nected , look up to the Supreme Be- behaviour . It is social , kind ...
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... true pleasure ; commended . 31. Temperance in Pleasure re - any more than that which under- mines an essential part of the vital system , can promote health . For the Let me particularly exhort youth truth of this conclusion , we appeal ...
... true pleasure ; commended . 31. Temperance in Pleasure re - any more than that which under- mines an essential part of the vital system , can promote health . For the Let me particularly exhort youth truth of this conclusion , we appeal ...
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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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