Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in PoetryVicesimus Knox J. Johnson, 1808 - 1 páginas An anthology of prose passages primarily from Greek, Roman, and English authors. |
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... nation upon you from far , O house of Israel , saith the Lord : it is a mighty nation , it is an ancient nation , a nation whose language thou knowest not , neither understandest what they say . " He compares them in like manner to ...
... nation upon you from far , O house of Israel , saith the Lord : it is a mighty nation , it is an ancient nation , a nation whose language thou knowest not , neither understandest what they say . " He compares them in like manner to ...
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... nation upon earth , that hath been exposed to so many massacres and persecutions . Their history abounds with them . If God had not given them a promise of a numerous posterity , the whole race would many a time have been extirpated ...
... nation upon earth , that hath been exposed to so many massacres and persecutions . Their history abounds with them . If God had not given them a promise of a numerous posterity , the whole race would many a time have been extirpated ...
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... nation , must always be accounted for the very next feffion , in this houfe , and likewife in the other , if they ... nation towards the latter end of the late queen's reign ? And it is well known what a fatal change in the affairs of ...
... nation , must always be accounted for the very next feffion , in this houfe , and likewife in the other , if they ... nation towards the latter end of the late queen's reign ? And it is well known what a fatal change in the affairs of ...
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