The Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres; Or, An Introduction to Languages, Poetry, Rhetorick, History, Moral Philosophy, Physicks, &c. ...W. Strahan, 1769 - Education |
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... Sometimes they were obliged to cons quer twice to gain the prize . To raise fome emulation likewife in those of indifferent capacities , I feparated them from fuch as had the best , and propofed prizes also for them . By this method I ...
... Sometimes they were obliged to cons quer twice to gain the prize . To raise fome emulation likewife in those of indifferent capacities , I feparated them from fuch as had the best , and propofed prizes also for them . By this method I ...
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... sometimes meditating on the harangues he was to make at the opening of the court ; fome- times reconciling the differences of the peafants in one of the alleys of his garden . Why cannot I reprefent him to you as he was , " when he went ...
... sometimes meditating on the harangues he was to make at the opening of the court ; fome- times reconciling the differences of the peafants in one of the alleys of his garden . Why cannot I reprefent him to you as he was , " when he went ...
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... Sometimes re- " conciling differences which animofity , jealoufy , or " evil counfel , occafion among country - people ; bet- ❝ter pleased , and perhaps greater before God , when " he established the repofe of a poor family , at the ...
... Sometimes re- " conciling differences which animofity , jealoufy , or " evil counfel , occafion among country - people ; bet- ❝ter pleased , and perhaps greater before God , when " he established the repofe of a poor family , at the ...
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... Sometimes juft escaped , fome- times juft taken ; her fortune fhifting every quarter " of an hour , having no other affiftance but God , The Queen of England's funeral oration , by M. Boffuet . C 3 " and " and her own invincible ...
... Sometimes juft escaped , fome- times juft taken ; her fortune fhifting every quarter " of an hour , having no other affiftance but God , The Queen of England's funeral oration , by M. Boffuet . C 3 " and " and her own invincible ...
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... oratio , & è fingulis non membris , fed fruftis collata . Nunc illud volunt , ut omnis locus , omnis fenfus , in fine fermo- nis , feriat aurem . We We sometimes meet in Cicero with this kind of thoughts 116 Of Thoughts .
... oratio , & è fingulis non membris , fed fruftis collata . Nunc illud volunt , ut omnis locus , omnis fenfus , in fine fermo- nis , feriat aurem . We We sometimes meet in Cicero with this kind of thoughts 116 Of Thoughts .
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