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A Grammar of the Italian Language: With a Copious Praxis of Moral Sentences ... - Page 262
by Giuseppe Baretti - 1778 - 448 pages
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The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors

Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 pages
...AUTHORS, THEIR CONVERSATION AND WRITINGS. — A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often, like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine...
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A Pastor's Legacy: Being Sermons on Practical Subjects

Erskine Mason, William Adams - 1853 - 532 pages
...author's book is equally true of a preacher's public office. " The transition from it to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city after a distant prospect. Kemotely we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine...
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A Pastor's Legacy: Being Sermons on Practical Subjects

Erskine Mason, William Adams - 1853 - 538 pages
...author's book is equally true of a preacher's public office. " The transition from it to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city after a distant prospect. Remotely we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...revives them. THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS. A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine...
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Laconics: Or the Best Words of the Best Authors ...

John Timbs - 1856 - 374 pages
...opinion's colours cast on life. Pope. DXXXVIII. A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine...
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Laconics, Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors: In Three Volumes, Volume 2

1856 - 372 pages
...opinion's colours cast on life. Pope. DXXXVIIL A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 pages
...revives them. THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS. A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine...
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A Compendium of English Literautre: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...revives them. THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS. A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine...
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Wisdom and Genius of Dr. Samuel Johnson: Selected from His Prose Writings

Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 pages
...uncommon opportunities for their exertion. A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine...
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A Thousand Thoughts from Various Authors

Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - 396 pages
...author. Addison, Spectator, No. 1 AUTHORS. A TRANSITION from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine...
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