Essays, Biographical, Critical and Historical, Volume 2Suttaby, 1814 - English literature |
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... effect of his thinking . Then spared hee not to remember , how much Arcadia was chang ed since his youth : activitie and good fellowship beeing nothing in the price it was then held in ; but , according to the nature of the old ...
... effect of his thinking . Then spared hee not to remember , how much Arcadia was chang ed since his youth : activitie and good fellowship beeing nothing in the price it was then held in ; but , according to the nature of the old ...
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... effect , but the greater part throws such . an obscurity round his subject , or places it in such a ludicrous light , that the knowledge he wishes to communicate is either not understood , or , if perceived , is unhappily associated ...
... effect , but the greater part throws such . an obscurity round his subject , or places it in such a ludicrous light , that the knowledge he wishes to communicate is either not understood , or , if perceived , is unhappily associated ...
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... employed it in bio- graphy , criticism , and miscellaneous literature , cannot but excite astonishment . Of its effect Pseudodoxia , p . 229 , 230 . when chosen for biographical detail the following is the most OF ENGLISH STYLE , & c . 29.
... employed it in bio- graphy , criticism , and miscellaneous literature , cannot but excite astonishment . Of its effect Pseudodoxia , p . 229 , 230 . when chosen for biographical detail the following is the most OF ENGLISH STYLE , & c . 29.
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... effects and im- provements of his own art and diligence ; to be always gathering of some fruits of it , and at the same time to behold others ripening , and others budding ; to see all his fields and gardens covered with the beauteous ...
... effects and im- provements of his own art and diligence ; to be always gathering of some fruits of it , and at the same time to behold others ripening , and others budding ; to see all his fields and gardens covered with the beauteous ...
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... effects , to admire and magnify the wisdom , power , and goodness of their author , Such a knowledge as this , which is suited to our present condition , we want not faculties to attain . But it appears not , that God intended we should ...
... effects , to admire and magnify the wisdom , power , and goodness of their author , Such a knowledge as this , which is suited to our present condition , we want not faculties to attain . But it appears not , that God intended we should ...
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