Collected Works, Volume 1Clarendon P., 1966 - English literature |
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... English Words used by the best Writers ; the various Senses of each Word being distinctly pointed out by Figures , 1 , 2 , 3 , & c . II . The Language from which each Word is derived . III . The 5 Part of Speech to which it belongs . IV ...
... English Words used by the best Writers ; the various Senses of each Word being distinctly pointed out by Figures , 1 , 2 , 3 , & c . II . The Language from which each Word is derived . III . The 5 Part of Speech to which it belongs . IV ...
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... English , has proceeded of late several disagreeable instances of pedantry . Among the number , I think we may reckon blank verse . Nothing but the greatest sublimity of subject can render such a measure pleasing ; however , we now see ...
... English , has proceeded of late several disagreeable instances of pedantry . Among the number , I think we may reckon blank verse . Nothing but the greatest sublimity of subject can render such a measure pleasing ; however , we now see ...
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... English philosophers owed their being particularly admired by the rest of Europe . The romantic system of Des Cartes was adapted to the taste of the superficial and the indolent ; the foreign universities had embraced it with ardour ...
... English philosophers owed their being particularly admired by the rest of Europe . The romantic system of Des Cartes was adapted to the taste of the superficial and the indolent ; the foreign universities had embraced it with ardour ...
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