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 sider An anthology of prose passages primarily from Greek, Roman, and English authors. |
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... swept away the rest , and left the bridge in the ruinous condition I now beheld it : but tell me further , said he , what thou discoverest on it . I see mul- titudes of people passing over it , said I , and a black cloud hanging on each ...
... swept away the rest , and left the bridge in the ruinous condition I now beheld it : but tell me further , said he , what thou discoverest on it . I see mul- titudes of people passing over it , said I , and a black cloud hanging on each ...
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