Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in PoetryB. Law [and others], 1797 - 1120 psl. An extremely popular anthology of prose writings by well-known authors, collected by Vicesimus Knox and first published in 1783. |
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... ftill predominant . They forgot that Philip might renew his attempt ; and thought they had pro- vided fufficiently for their fecurity , by pofting a body of troops at the en- trance of Attica , under the command of Menelaus , a ...
... ftill predominant . They forgot that Philip might renew his attempt ; and thought they had pro- vided fufficiently for their fecurity , by pofting a body of troops at the en- trance of Attica , under the command of Menelaus , a ...
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... ftill continued , out of refpect to the reafonable and decent purpofe for which the law was originally enacted . When a speaker has delivered his fentiments , he generally called on an officer , appointed for that purpose , to read his ...
... ftill continued , out of refpect to the reafonable and decent purpofe for which the law was originally enacted . When a speaker has delivered his fentiments , he generally called on an officer , appointed for that purpose , to read his ...
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... ftill the measures I propofe will have their ufe : as his fears may keep him quiet , when he knows we are prepared ( and this he will know , for there are too too many among ourselves who inform him of every thing ) : or , if he fhould ...
... ftill the measures I propofe will have their ufe : as his fears may keep him quiet , when he knows we are prepared ( and this he will know , for there are too too many among ourselves who inform him of every thing ) : or , if he fhould ...
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... ftill by once engaging his enemy . No ; they extending his ambitious views , poffibly , he chufe the death of robbers and pilferers , may at laft call you forth , unless you have rather than to fall as becomes them . Such renounced the ...
... ftill by once engaging his enemy . No ; they extending his ambitious views , poffibly , he chufe the death of robbers and pilferers , may at laft call you forth , unless you have rather than to fall as becomes them . Such renounced the ...
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... ftill neglecting the prefent , and imagining our future in- terefts will not demand our care : we have aggrandized our enemy , we have raised him to a degree of eminence , greater than any king of Macedon hath ever yet en- joyed . Now ...
... ftill neglecting the prefent , and imagining our future in- terefts will not demand our care : we have aggrandized our enemy , we have raised him to a degree of eminence , greater than any king of Macedon hath ever yet en- joyed . Now ...
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698 psl. - Had you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men? As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him : but, as he was ambitious, I slew him. There is tears for his love; joy for his fortune; honour for his valour; and death for his ambition.
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