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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected ... - Page 886
by Vicesimus Knox - 1797 - 1120 pages
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A Hand-book of English Literature Intended for the Use of High Schools, as ...

Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...estimate the happiness and misery of every condition, observe the power of all the passio•ns in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are modtned by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness...
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Wisdom and Genius of Dr. Samuel Johnson: Selected from His Prose Writings

Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 pages
...estimate the happiness and misery of every condition ; observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to the...
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The History of Rasselas. And Elizabeth

Samuel Johnson - 1876 - 430 pages
...estimate the happiness and misery of every condition ; observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliuesa of infancy to the...
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Report of Her Majesty's Civil Service Commissioners: Together ..., Volume 21

1877 - 678 pages
...estimate the happiness and misery of every condition, observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind, as they nre modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness...
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Johnson. Select works, ed. with intr. and notes by A. Milnes. Lives of ...

Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pages
...estimate the happiness and misery of every condition, observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to the...
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Acme Library of Standard Biography: Third Series

Authors, English - 1880 - 556 pages
...misery of every condition ; observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and know the changes of the human mind as they are modified by various institutions, and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to...
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The history of the caliph Vathek, by W. Beckford [tr. by S. Henley]. Also ...

William Beckford - 1883 - 454 pages
...estimate the happiness and misery of every condition ; observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to the...
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The History of the Caliph Vathek

William Beckford - Fiction - 1883 - 446 pages
...estimate the happiness and misery of every condition ; observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to the...
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Johnson's History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1891 - 286 pages
...estimate the happiness and misery of every condition, observe 25 the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to the...
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Aristotle on the Art of Poetry: A Lecture with Two Appendices

Arthur Octavius Prickard - Aesthetics - 1891 - 196 pages
...estimate the happiness and misery of every condition ; observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to the...
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