Elements of Criticism In Two Volumes [The Dedication Signed: Henry Home], Volume 2Sarah Cotter, 1762 |
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... reader , in a work like the prefent , cannot fairly expec more than a flight sketch of those that make the greatest figure . This is a talk which I attempt the more willingly , as it appears to be connected with fome principles in human ...
... reader , in a work like the prefent , cannot fairly expec more than a flight sketch of those that make the greatest figure . This is a talk which I attempt the more willingly , as it appears to be connected with fome principles in human ...
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... readers of the fame ftamp , because of a certain de- gree of livelinefs in it . They do not confider how incongruous it is , in a grave compofition , to cheat the reader , and to make him expect a contraft in the thought , which upon ...
... readers of the fame ftamp , because of a certain de- gree of livelinefs in it . They do not confider how incongruous it is , in a grave compofition , to cheat the reader , and to make him expect a contraft in the thought , which upon ...
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... must crave liberty of my reader to enter a little more into an abftract fubject , than would other- wife be my choice . Such In nature , though a fubftance cannot exist with-- In Se & t . II . BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE . 37 6 ...
... must crave liberty of my reader to enter a little more into an abftract fubject , than would other- wife be my choice . Such In nature , though a fubftance cannot exist with-- In Se & t . II . BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE . 37 6 ...
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... reader , that I am now ready to enter upon the rules of arrangement ; beginning with a natural ftyle , and proceeding gradually to what is the most inverted . And in the arrangement of a period , as well as in a right choice of words ...
... reader , that I am now ready to enter upon the rules of arrangement ; beginning with a natural ftyle , and proceeding gradually to what is the most inverted . And in the arrangement of a period , as well as in a right choice of words ...
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... reader would fee the notion explained at large , he may find it in the eighth chapter of the fecond book of Mr. Locke's effay on human under- standing . Spectator , No. 413 . Better thus : As this is a truth , & c . the English reader ...
... reader would fee the notion explained at large , he may find it in the eighth chapter of the fecond book of Mr. Locke's effay on human under- standing . Spectator , No. 413 . Better thus : As this is a truth , & c . the English reader ...
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