Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, المجلد 2Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 |
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... exhibited these qualities in a remarkable degree ; and a wish to polish and refine , to cut off super- fluities , and to render diction perspicuous , was soon after displayed , and produced a more ac- curate attention to selection of ...
... exhibited these qualities in a remarkable degree ; and a wish to polish and refine , to cut off super- fluities , and to render diction perspicuous , was soon after displayed , and produced a more ac- curate attention to selection of ...
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... exhibited the graces of Cicero , is surely hyperbolical praise . Hume , though he possessed not a due esteem for the intellectual powers of Bacon , has given , per- haps , no unjust description of his style ; " he pos sessed not ...
... exhibited the graces of Cicero , is surely hyperbolical praise . Hume , though he possessed not a due esteem for the intellectual powers of Bacon , has given , per- haps , no unjust description of his style ; " he pos sessed not ...
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... exhibited a style in almost every respect dissimilar to that which we have been immediately contemplating . SPRAT , bishop of Rochester , in his History of the Royal Society , and in his Life of Cowley , presents us , for the period in ...
... exhibited a style in almost every respect dissimilar to that which we have been immediately contemplating . SPRAT , bishop of Rochester , in his History of the Royal Society , and in his Life of Cowley , presents us , for the period in ...
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... exhibiting a plain and simple style accommodated to the purposes of philosophy . To philologers of the nineteenth century , in- deed , the style of Locke will , no doubt , appear imperfect . His sentences , though clear as to their ...
... exhibiting a plain and simple style accommodated to the purposes of philosophy . To philologers of the nineteenth century , in- deed , the style of Locke will , no doubt , appear imperfect . His sentences , though clear as to their ...
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... exhibited consummate judgment and taste . His words , though plain , are expressive , and his idioms , with which he ... exhibiting any studied cadences , sel- dom fail to please the ear . Dr. Warton relates in his Essay on Pope , that ...
... exhibited consummate judgment and taste . His words , though plain , are expressive , and his idioms , with which he ... exhibiting any studied cadences , sel- dom fail to please the ear . Dr. Warton relates in his Essay on Pope , that ...
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