Elegant extracts, or, Useful and entertaining passages in prose
Subtitle: selected for the improvement of scholars at classical and other schools in the art of speaking, in reading, thinking, composing, and in the conduct of life
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Printed by P. Byrne
Published: 1797
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 600
Other titles: Useful and entertaining passages in prose.
Notes: Two columns per page.

Attributed to Vicesimus Knox.

"To this edition is added a short system of geography, from Sharpe's translation of Holberg's Introduction to universal history, and a chronological table of remarkable events, discoveries, and inventions; also the era, the country, and writings of learned men."