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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Page 20
... mention the intimate connection that the foul hath with the body , the expreflion ought to be , the foul and body ; because the particle the , relative to both , makes a connection in the expreffion , refembling in fome degree the ...
... mention the intimate connection that the foul hath with the body , the expreflion ought to be , the foul and body ; because the particle the , relative to both , makes a connection in the expreffion , refembling in fome degree the ...
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... mention Leonora , nor that her father was dead . " Better thus : " He did not mention Leonora , nor her father's death . " Where two ideas are fo connected as to require but a copulative , it is pleafant to find a connection in the ...
... mention Leonora , nor that her father was dead . " Better thus : " He did not mention Leonora , nor her father's death . " Where two ideas are fo connected as to require but a copulative , it is pleafant to find a connection in the ...
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... mentioned , is to conjoin artificially words that exprefs ideas oppof- ed to each other . This is a fault too grofs to be in common practice ; and yet writers are guilty of it in fome degree , when they conjoin by a copulative , things ...
... mentioned , is to conjoin artificially words that exprefs ideas oppof- ed to each other . This is a fault too grofs to be in common practice ; and yet writers are guilty of it in fome degree , when they conjoin by a copulative , things ...
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... mentioning a demand made by the people of Enna of the keys from the Roman gov- ernor , makes him say , Quas fimul tradiderimus , Carthaginienfium extemplo Enna erit , tædiufque hic trucidabimur , quam Murgantia præfidium interfe & um ...
... mentioning a demand made by the people of Enna of the keys from the Roman gov- ernor , makes him say , Quas fimul tradiderimus , Carthaginienfium extemplo Enna erit , tædiufque hic trucidabimur , quam Murgantia præfidium interfe & um ...
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... mentioned : the members of a period connected by proper copulatives , glide fmoothly and gently along ; and are a proof of fedatenefs and leifure in the fpeak- er on the other hand , one in the hurry of paffion neglecting copulatives ...
... mentioned : the members of a period connected by proper copulatives , glide fmoothly and gently along ; and are a proof of fedatenefs and leifure in the fpeak- er on the other hand , one in the hurry of paffion neglecting copulatives ...
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