Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry Selected for the Impropvement of Young Persons Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose, Volum 2J. Johnson, 1801 |
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Pàgina 695
... better than the citizen . His parts were plau- fible , rather than great ; fpecicus , rather than penetrating ; and his views of politics but narrow ; for his chief inftrument of governing was diffimulation ; yet he had not always the ...
... better than the citizen . His parts were plau- fible , rather than great ; fpecicus , rather than penetrating ; and his views of politics but narrow ; for his chief inftrument of governing was diffimulation ; yet he had not always the ...
Pàgina 863
... better philofophers ; the Italians better painters and musicians ; the Romans were better orators ; but the French are the only people , except the Greeks , who have been at once philofo- phers , poets , orators , hiftorians , painters ...
... better philofophers ; the Italians better painters and musicians ; the Romans were better orators ; but the French are the only people , except the Greeks , who have been at once philofo- phers , poets , orators , hiftorians , painters ...
Pàgina 1029
... better . The first faults are theirs er who commit them , all the following are his who doth not punish them . He who would be ill served , let him keep good store of servants . To do good still make no delay ; for life and time slide ...
... better . The first faults are theirs er who commit them , all the following are his who doth not punish them . He who would be ill served , let him keep good store of servants . To do good still make no delay ; for life and time slide ...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected ... Vicesimus Knox Visualització completa - 1797 |
Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected ... Vicesimus Knox Visualització completa - 1801 |
Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry, Selected for ... Vicesimus Knox Visualització completa - 1796 |
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