Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations, Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons: Originally Compiled by the Rev. Vicesimus Knos ...Samuel Walker, 1826 |
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Page 107
... ment not less ragged than that of roughly convinced that it is fatal to Socrates ? Like Joseph , the patri- true science , an enemy to the fine arch , I am a mighty dreamer of arts , destructive of genuine senti- dreams ; like Nimrod ...
... ment not less ragged than that of roughly convinced that it is fatal to Socrates ? Like Joseph , the patri- true science , an enemy to the fine arch , I am a mighty dreamer of arts , destructive of genuine senti- dreams ; like Nimrod ...
Page 296
... ment of your taste , my lord , as Went- in a small volume , and which shall worth Castle , if you did not know be at your service with the Catalogue but it might be overturned in a mo- of Noble Authors . ment , and crush you ? Sir ...
... ment of your taste , my lord , as Went- in a small volume , and which shall worth Castle , if you did not know be at your service with the Catalogue but it might be overturned in a mo- of Noble Authors . ment , and crush you ? Sir ...
Page 350
... ment , for we are making experiments . good night's rest , as I do you a plea- I do not oppose all that seem wrong , sant evening . Adieu ! And believe for the multitude are more effectually me ever yours most affectionately . * set ...
... ment , for we are making experiments . good night's rest , as I do you a plea- I do not oppose all that seem wrong , sant evening . Adieu ! And believe for the multitude are more effectually me ever yours most affectionately . * set ...
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