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, Volúmenes1-2Vicesimus Knox T. Longman, 1797 - 1120 páginas |
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... honour ; and the more rare and difficult that complete perfection is , the greater is the honour of approaching to it , though we do not fully attain it . The number of orators who ftand in the highest class is , perhaps , smaller than ...
... honour ; and the more rare and difficult that complete perfection is , the greater is the honour of approaching to it , though we do not fully attain it . The number of orators who ftand in the highest class is , perhaps , smaller than ...
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... Honour of God 188 Stackhouse . 290 Ld . Bacon 294 160 Honour due to God's Word 190 61 Duties owing to particular Perfons 192 162 Duty to our Teachers and Inftruc- tors , & c . - 193 and Simplicity Philofophy Dr. Clark . 295 ...
... Honour of God 188 Stackhouse . 290 Ld . Bacon 294 160 Honour due to God's Word 190 61 Duties owing to particular Perfons 192 162 Duty to our Teachers and Inftruc- tors , & c . - 193 and Simplicity Philofophy Dr. Clark . 295 ...
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... honour or in- famy , depend . Now , when beginning to act that part , what can be of greater mo- ment , than to regulate your plan of conduct with the most ferious attention , before you have yet committed any fatal or irretriev- able ...
... honour or in- famy , depend . Now , when beginning to act that part , what can be of greater mo- ment , than to regulate your plan of conduct with the most ferious attention , before you have yet committed any fatal or irretriev- able ...
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... honour ; while a refpected character adds weight to ex- ample , and authority to counfel . To de- fire the cfteem of others for the fake of its effects , is not only allowable , but in many cafes is our duty ; and to be totally ...
... honour ; while a refpected character adds weight to ex- ample , and authority to counfel . To de- fire the cfteem of others for the fake of its effects , is not only allowable , but in many cafes is our duty ; and to be totally ...
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... Honour , by reafon of the temple of Virtue , which flood before it : at the gates of this temple , we were met by the god defs of it , who conducted us into that of Honour , which was joined to the other edifice by a beautiful triumphal ...
... Honour , by reafon of the temple of Virtue , which flood before it : at the gates of this temple , we were met by the god defs of it , who conducted us into that of Honour , which was joined to the other edifice by a beautiful triumphal ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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