Elements of Criticism: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions : Vol. I( -II)From the Press of S. Etheridge, for J. White, Thomas & Andrews, W. Spotswood, D. West, W.P. Blake, E. Larkin, & J. West, 1796 - Criticism - 440 pages |
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... equally useful in comparing the words of different languages ; which will thus appear . Different nations judge differently of the harshness or smoothnefs of articulate founds 3 a found , for example , harfh and disagreeable to an ...
... equally useful in comparing the words of different languages ; which will thus appear . Different nations judge differently of the harshness or smoothnefs of articulate founds 3 a found , for example , harfh and disagreeable to an ...
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... equally capable to judge of the length or fhortnefs of words , of the alternate opening and clofing of the mouth in fpeaking , and of the relation that the found bears to the fenfe : in these particulars , the judgment is fufceptible of ...
... equally capable to judge of the length or fhortnefs of words , of the alternate opening and clofing of the mouth in fpeaking , and of the relation that the found bears to the fenfe : in these particulars , the judgment is fufceptible of ...
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... equally fo SECT . II . Beauty of Language with refpect to Signification . It is well faid by a noted writer , * « That T by means of speech we can divert our forrows , min- gle our mirth , impart our fecrets , communicate our counfels ...
... equally fo SECT . II . Beauty of Language with refpect to Signification . It is well faid by a noted writer , * « That T by means of speech we can divert our forrows , min- gle our mirth , impart our fecrets , communicate our counfels ...
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... equally exceptionable . -The fiend look'd up and knew His mounted scale aloft ; nor more , but fied Murm'ring , and with him fled the thades of night . Paradife Loft , b . 4. at the end . There is no natural connection between a ...
... equally exceptionable . -The fiend look'd up and knew His mounted scale aloft ; nor more , but fied Murm'ring , and with him fled the thades of night . Paradife Loft , b . 4. at the end . There is no natural connection between a ...
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... equally in both . Ambiguities occafioned by a wrong arrangement are of two forts ; one where the arrangement leads to a wrong fenfe , and one where the fenfe is beft doubtful . The firft , being the more culpable , fhall take the lead ...
... equally in both . Ambiguities occafioned by a wrong arrangement are of two forts ; one where the arrangement leads to a wrong fenfe , and one where the fenfe is beft doubtful . The firft , being the more culpable , fhall take the lead ...
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