Letters to the Young by Maria Jane JewsburyAppleton, 1835 - 264 sidor |
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... never ask you to read his " Davideis , " I beg your attention to the fol- lowing extract from his preface . " What can we imagine more proper for the ornaments of wit or learning in the story of Deucalion , than in that of Noah ? Why ...
... never ask you to read his " Davideis , " I beg your attention to the fol- lowing extract from his preface . " What can we imagine more proper for the ornaments of wit or learning in the story of Deucalion , than in that of Noah ? Why ...
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... never read our standard authors ( Shak- speare in particular ) without a vivid impres- sion that their perusal of the Bible was more than occasional , and their obligations to it far from slight . Indeed , I think , that in England we ...
... never read our standard authors ( Shak- speare in particular ) without a vivid impres- sion that their perusal of the Bible was more than occasional , and their obligations to it far from slight . Indeed , I think , that in England we ...
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... never , in my general reading , exceedingly admire any poetical thoughts or figures , any instances of noble feeling , or fine illustrations of character , without looking whether the pages of the Bible do not contain something similar ...
... never , in my general reading , exceedingly admire any poetical thoughts or figures , any instances of noble feeling , or fine illustrations of character , without looking whether the pages of the Bible do not contain something similar ...
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... never had . " I must confess for myself , that the histori- cal books of the Old Testament are so exqui- sitely interesting , that I almost think I gather more instruction from the perusal of them , than from parts more immediately ...
... never had . " I must confess for myself , that the histori- cal books of the Old Testament are so exqui- sitely interesting , that I almost think I gather more instruction from the perusal of them , than from parts more immediately ...
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... never been weary of drinking ; which has suggested to them their noblest images , and animated them for their sublimest flights . " I wish , in the present letter , to show you some of these remarkable coincidences ; and to prove , that ...
... never been weary of drinking ; which has suggested to them their noblest images , and animated them for their sublimest flights . " I wish , in the present letter , to show you some of these remarkable coincidences ; and to prove , that ...
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