Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations: Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons, Volume 2S. Walker, 1826 - English letters |
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Page 285
... Learning should be sometimes applied to cultivate our Morals . grave without any conspicuous op- portunities of exerting . Raphael , in return to Adam's inquiries into the courses of the stars and the revolu- tions of heaven , counsels ...
... Learning should be sometimes applied to cultivate our Morals . grave without any conspicuous op- portunities of exerting . Raphael , in return to Adam's inquiries into the courses of the stars and the revolu- tions of heaven , counsels ...
Page 318
... learning began again to flourish attempted ; in an old scholiast there in the calm of peace . When life is mention of a Latin Iliad , and we and possessions were secure , conve- have not wholly lost Tully's version nience and enjoyment ...
... learning began again to flourish attempted ; in an old scholiast there in the calm of peace . When life is mention of a Latin Iliad , and we and possessions were secure , conve- have not wholly lost Tully's version nience and enjoyment ...
Page 319
... learning than genius , or that the en- he has attempted nothing higher deavours of that time were more di- than a version strictly literal , and rected towards knowledge than de- has degraded the poetical parts to light , the accuracy ...
... learning than genius , or that the en- he has attempted nothing higher deavours of that time were more di- than a version strictly literal , and rected towards knowledge than de- has degraded the poetical parts to light , the accuracy ...
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The effects of a dissolution of the Fede | 16 |
Necessity of the Union | 23 |
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