Elements of Criticism In Two Volumes [The Dedication Signed: Henry Home], Volume 2Sarah Cotter, 1762 |
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... give offence , form the character of another people . To each the manners of the other are difagreeable . An effeminate mind cannot bear the least of that roughnefs and feverity , which is ge- nerally esteemed manly when exerted upon ...
... give offence , form the character of another people . To each the manners of the other are difagreeable . An effeminate mind cannot bear the least of that roughnefs and feverity , which is ge- nerally esteemed manly when exerted upon ...
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... gives ample opportu- nity , muft , even in an effeminate car , prevail over the more uniform founds of the fmoother lan- guage * . This appears to me all that can be fafely determined upon the prefent point . With refpect to the other ...
... gives ample opportu- nity , muft , even in an effeminate car , prevail over the more uniform founds of the fmoother lan- guage * . This appears to me all that can be fafely determined upon the prefent point . With refpect to the other ...
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... give a few examples where the obfcurity arifes from a wrong choice of words and as this defect is so common in ordinary writers as to make examples from them unneceffary , I confine myself to the most celebrated authors . Livy ...
... give a few examples where the obfcurity arifes from a wrong choice of words and as this defect is so common in ordinary writers as to make examples from them unneceffary , I confine myself to the most celebrated authors . Livy ...
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... lan- guage of paffion , I had occafion to give many ex- Elements of criticifin , vol . 1. p . 26 . Ibid . Chap . 2. part 4 . amples amples of deviations from this rule with regard to the Ch . XVIII . 17 BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE .
... lan- guage of paffion , I had occafion to give many ex- Elements of criticifin , vol . 1. p . 26 . Ibid . Chap . 2. part 4 . amples amples of deviations from this rule with regard to the Ch . XVIII . 17 BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE .
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... give various exam- ples of deviations from it . I begin with the words that express the resemblance . I have obferved of late , the style of fome great minifters very much to exceed that of any other productions . Letter to the Lord ...
... give various exam- ples of deviations from it . I begin with the words that express the resemblance . I have obferved of late , the style of fome great minifters very much to exceed that of any other productions . Letter to the Lord ...
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