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Pagina 48
He seems not to have known, or not to have considered, that words being
arbitrary must owe their power to association, and have the influence, and that
only, which custom has given them. Language is the dress of thought; and as the
noblest ...
He seems not to have known, or not to have considered, that words being
arbitrary must owe their power to association, and have the influence, and that
only, which custom has given them. Language is the dress of thought; and as the
noblest ...
Pagina 294
More examples of more modes of composition were necessary for the
establishment of regularity, and the introduction of propriety in word and thought.
Every language of a learned nation necessarily divides itself into diction
scholastick and ...
More examples of more modes of composition were necessary for the
establishment of regularity, and the introduction of propriety in word and thought.
Every language of a learned nation necessarily divides itself into diction
scholastick and ...
Pagina 334
Amongst us, who have a stronger genius for writing, the operations from the
writing are much stronger: for the raising of Shakespeare's passions is more from
the excellency of the words and thoughts, than the justness of the occasion; and if
he ...
Amongst us, who have a stronger genius for writing, the operations from the
writing are much stronger: for the raising of Shakespeare's passions is more from
the excellency of the words and thoughts, than the justness of the occasion; and if
he ...
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