Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in PoetryC. Dilly, 1790 - 1019 страници |
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... poffeffed on a very difputable title : every bird from whom the daw had stolen feathers , might claim his own plumage ; nor can he pretend an exclufive right , who perhaps has no right at all , but by the connivance of the real and ...
... poffeffed on a very difputable title : every bird from whom the daw had stolen feathers , might claim his own plumage ; nor can he pretend an exclufive right , who perhaps has no right at all , but by the connivance of the real and ...
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... poffeffed by one man ; and to be employed by him , according as the different parts of his difcourfe require either the one or the other . This is a per- fection which is not attained by many ; the greatest part of public fpeakers ...
... poffeffed by one man ; and to be employed by him , according as the different parts of his difcourfe require either the one or the other . This is a per- fection which is not attained by many ; the greatest part of public fpeakers ...
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... poffeffed with a fenfe of its importance or ferioufnefs ; to be concerned much more to perfuade than to please . He will generally please moft , when pleafing is not his foul nor chief aim . This is the only rational and proper method ...
... poffeffed with a fenfe of its importance or ferioufnefs ; to be concerned much more to perfuade than to please . He will generally please moft , when pleafing is not his foul nor chief aim . This is the only rational and proper method ...
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... poffeffed at prefent , the inferior nature will at length mount up to it , and shine forth in the fame degree of glory . With what aftonishment and veneration may we look into our own fouls , where there are fuch hidden ftores of virtue ...
... poffeffed at prefent , the inferior nature will at length mount up to it , and shine forth in the fame degree of glory . With what aftonishment and veneration may we look into our own fouls , where there are fuch hidden ftores of virtue ...
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... poffeffed at once of time fufficient for any great defign , and there- fore indulge ourfelves in fortuitous amufe- ments . We think it unneceflary to take an account of a few fupernumerary mo- ments , which , however employed , could ...
... poffeffed at once of time fufficient for any great defign , and there- fore indulge ourfelves in fortuitous amufe- ments . We think it unneceflary to take an account of a few fupernumerary mo- ments , which , however employed , could ...
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