Class Book of Prose: Consisting of Selections from Distinguished English and American Authors, from Chaucer to the Present Day, the Whole Arranged in Chronological Order, with Biographical and Critical RemarksE.H. Butler & Company, 1848 - 384 pages |
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... excellent specimen of the language of the time . Being universally read by all ranks of the people , it has contributed es- sentially to give stability and uniformity to the English tongue . ] Paul's Defence before King Agrippa . On the ...
... excellent specimen of the language of the time . Being universally read by all ranks of the people , it has contributed es- sentially to give stability and uniformity to the English tongue . ] Paul's Defence before King Agrippa . On the ...
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... , who states that he enjoyed for twenty years the opportunity of hearing his employer's discourse , and was in the habit of committing faithfully to writing " the excellent things that usually fell from him . " It 5 * SELDEN . 53.
... , who states that he enjoyed for twenty years the opportunity of hearing his employer's discourse , and was in the habit of committing faithfully to writing " the excellent things that usually fell from him . " It 5 * SELDEN . 53.
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... excellent things that usually fell from him . " It is more by his " Table Talk " than by the works published in his lifetime , that Selden is now generally known as a writer ; for though he was a man of great talent and learning , his ...
... excellent things that usually fell from him . " It is more by his " Table Talk " than by the works published in his lifetime , that Selden is now generally known as a writer ; for though he was a man of great talent and learning , his ...
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... excellent conceptions , worthy to be transmitted to posterity . Having , however , an aspect very like to narrow and dull capacities , at first sight most men take them to be really such , and strangers look upon them with the eyes of ...
... excellent conceptions , worthy to be transmitted to posterity . Having , however , an aspect very like to narrow and dull capacities , at first sight most men take them to be really such , and strangers look upon them with the eyes of ...
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... excellent . And thus God mouldeth some for a schoolmaster's life , undertaking it with desire and delight , and discharging it with dex- terity and happy success . He studieth his scholars ' natures as carefully as they their books ...
... excellent . And thus God mouldeth some for a schoolmaster's life , undertaking it with desire and delight , and discharging it with dex- terity and happy success . He studieth his scholars ' natures as carefully as they their books ...
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Class Book of Prose: Consisting of Selections from Distinguished English and ... John Seely Hart No preview available - 2016 |
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