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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... manner ? Nothing can be more absurd than to imagine , that as soon as one mounts a pulpit , or rises in a public assembly , he is instantly to lay aside the voice with which he expresses himself in private ; to assume , a new stu- died ...
... manner ? Nothing can be more absurd than to imagine , that as soon as one mounts a pulpit , or rises in a public assembly , he is instantly to lay aside the voice with which he expresses himself in private ; to assume , a new stu- died ...
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... manner in description : Funus interim Procedid ; sequimur ; ad sepulchrum venimus ; In ignem imposita est ; fletur ; interea hæc so or Quam dixi , ad flammam accessit imprudentiùs Satis cum periculo Ibi tum exanimatus Pam- philus Bene ...
... manner in description : Funus interim Procedid ; sequimur ; ad sepulchrum venimus ; In ignem imposita est ; fletur ; interea hæc so or Quam dixi , ad flammam accessit imprudentiùs Satis cum periculo Ibi tum exanimatus Pam- philus Bene ...
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... manner which appears in his writings . He was fonder of nothing than of wit and raillery ; but he is far from being happy in it . He attempts it often , but always awkwardly ; he is stiff , even in his pleasantry ; and laughs in form ...
... manner which appears in his writings . He was fonder of nothing than of wit and raillery ; but he is far from being happy in it . He attempts it often , but always awkwardly ; he is stiff , even in his pleasantry ; and laughs in form ...
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