Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in PoetryVicesimus Knox J. Johnson, 1808 - 1 σελίδες An anthology of prose passages primarily from Greek, Roman, and English authors. |
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... oath to be received with less reverence . If nobody dared to take an oath , but ... other respects an exact Christian . But , above all , we should be deterred ... heaven , for it is God's throne ; nei- ther by the earth , for it is his ...
... oath to be received with less reverence . If nobody dared to take an oath , but ... other respects an exact Christian . But , above all , we should be deterred ... heaven , for it is God's throne ; nei- ther by the earth , for it is his ...
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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