Laurence Sterne: The Making of a Humorist, 1713-1762 |
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Page 29
... called him ) , assessing the various merits of ancient writers on whom the moderns formed their style , turns away from the ' cold , dry precepts ' of Aristotle and the studied elegance of Isocrates ' orations to speak in warmest praise ...
... called him ) , assessing the various merits of ancient writers on whom the moderns formed their style , turns away from the ' cold , dry precepts ' of Aristotle and the studied elegance of Isocrates ' orations to speak in warmest praise ...
Page 84
... called on Dr Sterne to lay a complaint on her own and her mother's behalf against her brother . The Precentor , for his part , found no difficulty in believing what she told him ; it would doubtless seem to him likely enough that one ...
... called on Dr Sterne to lay a complaint on her own and her mother's behalf against her brother . The Precentor , for his part , found no difficulty in believing what she told him ; it would doubtless seem to him likely enough that one ...
Page 93
... called themselves , or Latitudinarians , as the High Church Party called them , had from the seventeenth century onwards measured the claims of the various systems of religion CRITERION OF RELIGION 93.
... called themselves , or Latitudinarians , as the High Church Party called them , had from the seventeenth century onwards measured the claims of the various systems of religion CRITERION OF RELIGION 93.
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