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 An anthology of prose passages primarily from Greek, Roman, and English authors. |
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... Greece ) and of several cities in the eastern parts of Italy , which were in- habited by colonies from Greece , and were adorned with the pictures , and statues and other works , in which that nation delight- ed , and excelled the rest ...
... Greece ) and of several cities in the eastern parts of Italy , which were in- habited by colonies from Greece , and were adorned with the pictures , and statues and other works , in which that nation delight- ed , and excelled the rest ...
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... Greece . 15.16 Scamander comes from Crete into Phrygia , and begins the kingdom of Troy . 1493 Cadmus carried the Phoenician letters into Greece , and built the citadel at Thebes .. 1491 Moses performs a number of miracles in Egypt ...
... Greece . 15.16 Scamander comes from Crete into Phrygia , and begins the kingdom of Troy . 1493 Cadmus carried the Phoenician letters into Greece , and built the citadel at Thebes .. 1491 Moses performs a number of miracles in Egypt ...
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... Greece . Rowe ; 474 Anacreon , the Greek lyric poet . Fawkes , Addison . 456 Eschylus , the first Greek tragic poet . Potter . 435 Pindar , the Greek lyric poet . West . 413 Herodotus , of Greece , the first writer of prophane history ...
... Greece . Rowe ; 474 Anacreon , the Greek lyric poet . Fawkes , Addison . 456 Eschylus , the first Greek tragic poet . Potter . 435 Pindar , the Greek lyric poet . West . 413 Herodotus , of Greece , the first writer of prophane history ...
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
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