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 стор. An anthology of prose passages primarily from Greek, Roman, and English authors. |
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... perhaps the best rule of temperance . They go rather indeed beyond temperance , and may be called abstemious A man may be temperate , and yet allow himself a little more indulgence . Great care , however , is here necessary ; and the ...
... perhaps the best rule of temperance . They go rather indeed beyond temperance , and may be called abstemious A man may be temperate , and yet allow himself a little more indulgence . Great care , however , is here necessary ; and the ...
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... perhaps was no unworthy rival of several of the Greek which seems to have been the height of his ambition . His next point of merit , as it has been usually reckoned , was his refining satire ; and bringing it from the coarseness and ...
... perhaps was no unworthy rival of several of the Greek which seems to have been the height of his ambition . His next point of merit , as it has been usually reckoned , was his refining satire ; and bringing it from the coarseness and ...
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... perhaps , that a little tea , or a little Funch now and then , diet a little more costly , cloaths a little finer , and a little en- tertainment now and then , can be no great matter ; but remember , 66 Many a little makes a mickle ...
... perhaps , that a little tea , or a little Funch now and then , diet a little more costly , cloaths a little finer , and a little en- tertainment now and then , can be no great matter ; but remember , 66 Many a little makes a mickle ...
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