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, 2. köideJ. Johnson, 1801 |
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Page 685
... Thofe who gained moft by the death of Clodius . And who folicited for Milo ? I myfelf . What crime , what hor- rid villainy was I guilty of , when thofe plots that were conceived for our common deftruction were all , by my induftry ...
... Thofe who gained moft by the death of Clodius . And who folicited for Milo ? I myfelf . What crime , what hor- rid villainy was I guilty of , when thofe plots that were conceived for our common deftruction were all , by my induftry ...
Page 690
... thofe whom misfortunes have reduced to mifery and defpair , as in men who hazard the lofs of a comfortable fubfiftence , and the enjoyment of all the bleffings this world affords , by an unfuccefsful enter- prize . Adverfity , after a ...
... thofe whom misfortunes have reduced to mifery and defpair , as in men who hazard the lofs of a comfortable fubfiftence , and the enjoyment of all the bleffings this world affords , by an unfuccefsful enter- prize . Adverfity , after a ...
Page 892
... thofe dry fyftems which are at pre- fent in vogue in thofe places of education . For as it confifts in difcovering truth under borrowed appearances , it might prove of wonderful advantage in every branch of learning , by habituating the ...
... thofe dry fyftems which are at pre- fent in vogue in thofe places of education . For as it confifts in difcovering truth under borrowed appearances , it might prove of wonderful advantage in every branch of learning , by habituating the ...
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