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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... paffages which are generally thought obfcure . The au- thor , giving an attentive ear to every cenfure of that kind , has , in the prefent edition , renewed his efforts to correct eve- ry defect ; and he would gladly hope that he has ...
... paffages which are generally thought obfcure . The au- thor , giving an attentive ear to every cenfure of that kind , has , in the prefent edition , renewed his efforts to correct eve- ry defect ; and he would gladly hope that he has ...
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... paffage , he will pronounce the latter to be empty declamation . But if he can be prevailed upon to make the experiment , he will find much to his fatisfaction , every article well founded . pride and envy . put a man perpetually in ...
... paffage , he will pronounce the latter to be empty declamation . But if he can be prevailed upon to make the experiment , he will find much to his fatisfaction , every article well founded . pride and envy . put a man perpetually in ...
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... their connection with the principal fubject . In the following paffage different things are brought together without the flighteft con- nection , Lib.lin , 173 . nection , if it be not what may be called 34 CHAR . 1 . Perceptions and Ideas.
... their connection with the principal fubject . In the following paffage different things are brought together without the flighteft con- nection , Lib.lin , 173 . nection , if it be not what may be called 34 CHAR . 1 . Perceptions and Ideas.
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... paffage , and bestows them on the prefent object , which thereby appears more agreeable than when confidered apart . This reafon may appear obfcure and meta- physical , but the fact is beyond all difpute . No rela- * tion * Such ...
... paffage , and bestows them on the prefent object , which thereby appears more agreeable than when confidered apart . This reafon may appear obfcure and meta- physical , but the fact is beyond all difpute . No rela- * tion * Such ...
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... paffage - boat , in a brisk gale , bear much to one fide , I cannot avoid applying the whole force of my shoulders ... paf- fion feldom exceeds juft bounds . But , where anger impels one fuddenly to return a blow , even without thinking ...
... paffage - boat , in a brisk gale , bear much to one fide , I cannot avoid applying the whole force of my shoulders ... paf- fion feldom exceeds juft bounds . But , where anger impels one fuddenly to return a blow , even without thinking ...
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