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'.J. Johnson, 1801 |
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Pàgina 615
... paffions common to man- kind : nor muft we think that his friends only are exempted from them . It is true they lie concealed at prefent , as our indo- lence deprives them of all refource . But let us fhake off this indolence ! for you ...
... paffions common to man- kind : nor muft we think that his friends only are exempted from them . It is true they lie concealed at prefent , as our indo- lence deprives them of all refource . But let us fhake off this indolence ! for you ...
Pàgina 622
... action afcribed wholly to himself : ( for , befides his other paffions , the man hath this ambition in the highest degree . ) And if any per- fon , every man whom ye have sent out at the head 622 ELEGANT EXTRACTS IN PROSE .
... action afcribed wholly to himself : ( for , befides his other paffions , the man hath this ambition in the highest degree . ) And if any per- fon , every man whom ye have sent out at the head 622 ELEGANT EXTRACTS IN PROSE .
Pàgina 641
... paffion when a youth ; he has likewife carried off Publicius and Mu- natius , whofe tavern debts would never have occafioned any commotions in the ftate . But how important are the men he has left behind him ? how oppreffed with debt ...
... paffion when a youth ; he has likewife carried off Publicius and Mu- natius , whofe tavern debts would never have occafioned any commotions in the ftate . But how important are the men he has left behind him ? how oppreffed with debt ...
Pàgina 663
... paffion for glory . The philofo- phers themselves prefix their names to thofe books which they write upon the contempt of glory ; by which they fhew that they are defirous of praife and fame , while they affect to defpife them . Deci ...
... paffion for glory . The philofo- phers themselves prefix their names to thofe books which they write upon the contempt of glory ; by which they fhew that they are defirous of praife and fame , while they affect to defpife them . Deci ...
Pàgina 664
... paffion for glory , which , though too keen , perhaps , is howeve . virtuous . For what I did in conjunction with you during my confulfhip , for the fafety of this city and empire , for the lives of my fellow- citizens , and for the ...
... paffion for glory , which , though too keen , perhaps , is howeve . virtuous . For what I did in conjunction with you during my confulfhip , for the fafety of this city and empire , for the lives of my fellow- citizens , and for the ...
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