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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... understanding , or a vi- cious disposition , but is certainly a very strong presumption of the want of ima- gination and sensibility of heart , and of a perverted understanding . Some philoso- phers have been infidels ; few , men of ...
... understanding , or a vi- cious disposition , but is certainly a very strong presumption of the want of ima- gination and sensibility of heart , and of a perverted understanding . Some philoso- phers have been infidels ; few , men of ...
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... understanding of these truths , is useless , because the disease does not lie in the understanding . The evil is seated in the heart . The imaginations and passions are engaged on its side ; and to them the cure must be applied . Here ...
... understanding of these truths , is useless , because the disease does not lie in the understanding . The evil is seated in the heart . The imaginations and passions are engaged on its side ; and to them the cure must be applied . Here ...
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... understanding animated by ardour , and enlightened by pro- phecy . The ordinary feelings which make life amiable and indolent were unknown to him . No domestic difficulties , no domes- tic weakness reached him ; but aloof from the ...
... understanding animated by ardour , and enlightened by pro- phecy . The ordinary feelings which make life amiable and indolent were unknown to him . No domestic difficulties , no domes- tic weakness reached him ; but aloof from the ...
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