Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons, Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Poetry, Volumes 1-2Vicesimus Knox |
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... racter of a companion , it has a great deal to fay to them ; and will probably improve in the power of affording pleasure and inftruction , the more its acquaint- ance is cultivated . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE THIRD AND FOURTH EDITIONS ...
... racter of a companion , it has a great deal to fay to them ; and will probably improve in the power of affording pleasure and inftruction , the more its acquaint- ance is cultivated . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE THIRD AND FOURTH EDITIONS ...
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... racter . As you would be happy in your- felves , or in your connections with others , guard against this malignant fpirit . Study that charity which thinketh no evil ; that temper which , without degenerating into credulity , will ...
... racter . As you would be happy in your- felves , or in your connections with others , guard against this malignant fpirit . Study that charity which thinketh no evil ; that temper which , without degenerating into credulity , will ...
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... racter with an impartial eye ; and to learn , from your own failings , to give that in- dulgence which in your turn you claim . It is pride which fills the world with fo much harshness and feverity . In the ful- nefs of self ...
... racter with an impartial eye ; and to learn , from your own failings , to give that in- dulgence which in your turn you claim . It is pride which fills the world with fo much harshness and feverity . In the ful- nefs of self ...
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... racter thus fupported , will command more real refpect than can be procured by the moft fhining accomplishments , when fepa- rated from virtue . Blair . § 98. The Stings of Poverty , Disease , and Violence , lefs pungent than thofe of ...
... racter thus fupported , will command more real refpect than can be procured by the moft fhining accomplishments , when fepa- rated from virtue . Blair . § 98. The Stings of Poverty , Disease , and Violence , lefs pungent than thofe of ...
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... racter of those from whom it is received , little fatisfaction will be given to the spend- thrift by the encomiums which he purchases . For who are they that animate him in his purfuits , but young men , thoughtlefs and abandoned like ...
... racter of those from whom it is received , little fatisfaction will be given to the spend- thrift by the encomiums which he purchases . For who are they that animate him in his purfuits , but young men , thoughtlefs and abandoned like ...
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