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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... fome new tenet or rite to the establifhed religion , or appears to add new dignity to it ; and we muft confult the context before we can gather the true meaning ; which is , that the Greeks were confirmed in the belief of their ...
... fome new tenet or rite to the establifhed religion , or appears to add new dignity to it ; and we muft confult the context before we can gather the true meaning ; which is , that the Greeks were confirmed in the belief of their ...
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... fome parts intimately united , fome flightly , fome disjoined , and fome directly oppofed to each other . To find thefe conjunctions and dif junctions * Chap . 2. part 4a † Ibid . junctions imitated in the expreffion , is a beauty ; B 2 ...
... fome parts intimately united , fome flightly , fome disjoined , and fome directly oppofed to each other . To find thefe conjunctions and dif junctions * Chap . 2. part 4a † Ibid . junctions imitated in the expreffion , is a beauty ; B 2 ...
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... fome time ago , by an unparalleled feve- rity , and upon I know not what obfolete law , broke for blafphemy.t [ Better thus : ] - having made a discovery that there was no God , and having generously communi- cated their thoughts for ...
... fome time ago , by an unparalleled feve- rity , and upon I know not what obfolete law , broke for blafphemy.t [ Better thus : ] - having made a discovery that there was no God , and having generously communi- cated their thoughts for ...
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... fome degree , when they conjoin by a copulative , things tranfacted at different periods of time . Hence a want of neatnefs in the following expreffion . The nobility too , whom the King had no means of re- taining by fuitable offices ...
... fome degree , when they conjoin by a copulative , things tranfacted at different periods of time . Hence a want of neatnefs in the following expreffion . The nobility too , whom the King had no means of re- taining by fuitable offices ...
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... fome of his friends , " Here , Gentlemen , " fays he , " is the Marefchal Biron , whom I freely prefent both to my friends and enemies . " This rule of ftudying uniformity between the thought and expreffion , may be extended to the con ...
... fome of his friends , " Here , Gentlemen , " fays he , " is the Marefchal Biron , whom I freely prefent both to my friends and enemies . " This rule of ftudying uniformity between the thought and expreffion , may be extended to the con ...
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