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, Volume 2J. Johnson, 1801 - English poetry |
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Page 647
... because the pleasure of deli- verance is certain , the condition to which we are born uncertain ; and because we enter upon life withont consciousness , but are always sensible to the joys of preser- vation : surely , since our ...
... because the pleasure of deli- verance is certain , the condition to which we are born uncertain ; and because we enter upon life withont consciousness , but are always sensible to the joys of preser- vation : surely , since our ...
Page 668
... because we had laws and precedents already , but in re- gard to murder and violence : nor did Clodius's death give them so much con- cern as to occasion an extraordinary com- mission . For if the senate was deprived of the power of ...
... because we had laws and precedents already , but in re- gard to murder and violence : nor did Clodius's death give them so much con- cern as to occasion an extraordinary com- mission . For if the senate was deprived of the power of ...
Page 1019
... because we may happen to be so to- morrow . To mourn without measure , is folly ; not to mourn at all ... because they are regular ; and all his life is calm and serene , because it is innocent . A good man will love himself too well to ...
... because we may happen to be so to- morrow . To mourn without measure , is folly ; not to mourn at all ... because they are regular ; and all his life is calm and serene , because it is innocent . A good man will love himself too well to ...
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