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Lord Henry Home Kames. ry little congruity ; and less still at a public spectacle . Congruity is fo nearly allied to beauty , as commonly to be held a fpecies of it . And yet they differ fo effentially , as never to co- incide . Beauty ...
Lord Henry Home Kames. ry little congruity ; and less still at a public spectacle . Congruity is fo nearly allied to beauty , as commonly to be held a fpecies of it . And yet they differ fo effentially , as never to co- incide . Beauty ...
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... less abfurd than any of the foregoing paf- fages : Raphael , timuit , quo fofpite , vinci Rerum magna parens , et moriente mori . Imitated by Pope in his Epitaph on Sir God- frey Kneller : Living , Living , great Nature fear'd he might ...
... less abfurd than any of the foregoing paf- fages : Raphael , timuit , quo fofpite , vinci Rerum magna parens , et moriente mori . Imitated by Pope in his Epitaph on Sir God- frey Kneller : Living , Living , great Nature fear'd he might ...
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... from the subject to which it refers . This makes a harsh arrangement ; the less excufable that * See chap . I. the the fault is eafily prevented by placing the circumftance before 308 BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE . Ch . XVIII .
... from the subject to which it refers . This makes a harsh arrangement ; the less excufable that * See chap . I. the the fault is eafily prevented by placing the circumftance before 308 BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE . Ch . XVIII .
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