Sequel to the English Reader : Or, Elegant Selections in Prose and Poetry: Designed to Improve the Highest Class of Learners in Reading, to Establish a Taste for Just and Accurate Composition, and to Promote the Interests of Piety and VirtueCollins & Company, 1817 - 364 páginas |
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... thought themselves entitled to receive as large a pecuniary compenfation for their “ improve- ments . " !!! Ille finiftrorfum , bic dextrorfum , unus utrique ERROR , fed variis illudit partibus omnes . HOR . In juftice , however , to ...
... thought themselves entitled to receive as large a pecuniary compenfation for their “ improve- ments . " !!! Ille finiftrorfum , bic dextrorfum , unus utrique ERROR , fed variis illudit partibus omnes . HOR . In juftice , however , to ...
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... thought , that he who was happy in obscurity and indigence , would not have been rendered more hap- py by eminence and wealth ? " " When I had finished this speech , Almalic stood some moments in suspense , and I continued prostrate ...
... thought , that he who was happy in obscurity and indigence , would not have been rendered more hap- py by eminence and wealth ? " " When I had finished this speech , Almalic stood some moments in suspense , and I continued prostrate ...
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... thought to another , Surely , said I , man is but a shadow , and life a dream . Whilst I was thus musing , I cast my eyes towards the summit of a rock that was not far Chap . 1 . 7 Narrative Pieces . The vision of Mirza; exhibiting a ...
... thought to another , Surely , said I , man is but a shadow , and life a dream . Whilst I was thus musing , I cast my eyes towards the summit of a rock that was not far Chap . 1 . 7 Narrative Pieces . The vision of Mirza; exhibiting a ...
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... thought themselves within the reach of them , their footing failed , and down they sunk . In this confusion of objects , I observed some with scimitars in their hands , and others with uri- nals , who ran to and fro upon the bridge ...
... thought themselves within the reach of them , their footing failed , and down they sunk . In this confusion of objects , I observed some with scimitars in their hands , and others with uri- nals , who ran to and fro upon the bridge ...
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... thought of Socrates , that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock ; in order to be equally distributed among the whole species , those who now think themselves the most un- happy , would prefer the share they ...
... thought of Socrates , that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock ; in order to be equally distributed among the whole species , those who now think themselves the most un- happy , would prefer the share they ...
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