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Pagina 12
... sentiments regret the loss of their numbers , it is surely time to provide that the harmony of the moderns may be more permanent . A new pronunciation will make almost a new speech ; and therefore , since one great end of this ...
... sentiments regret the loss of their numbers , it is surely time to provide that the harmony of the moderns may be more permanent . A new pronunciation will make almost a new speech ; and therefore , since one great end of this ...
Pagina 51
... sentiments or doc- trine of their authors ; the word for the sake of which they are inserted , with all its appendant clauses , has been carefully preserved ; but it may sometimes happen , by hasty detruncation , that the general ...
... sentiments or doc- trine of their authors ; the word for the sake of which they are inserted , with all its appendant clauses , has been carefully preserved ; but it may sometimes happen , by hasty detruncation , that the general ...
Pagina 54
... sentiments , by shewing how one author copied the thoughts and diction of another : such quotations are indeed little more than repetitions , which might justly be cen- sured , did they not gratify the mind , by affording a kind of ...
... sentiments , by shewing how one author copied the thoughts and diction of another : such quotations are indeed little more than repetitions , which might justly be cen- sured , did they not gratify the mind , by affording a kind of ...
Pagina 134
... sentiments . The reverence due to writings that have long subsisted , arises therefore not from any credulous confidence in the superior wisdom of past ages , or gloomy persuasion of the degeneracy of mankind , but is the consequence of ...
... sentiments . The reverence due to writings that have long subsisted , arises therefore not from any credulous confidence in the superior wisdom of past ages , or gloomy persuasion of the degeneracy of mankind , but is the consequence of ...
Pagina 136
... sentiments to real life , but by comparing him with other authors . It was observed of the ancient schools of declama- tion , that the more diligently they were frequented , the more was the student disqualified for the world , because ...
... sentiments to real life , but by comparing him with other authors . It was observed of the ancient schools of declama- tion , that the more diligently they were frequented , the more was the student disqualified for the world , because ...
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