LECTURES ON RHETORIC AND BELLES LETTRES: IN THREE VOLUMES.W. STRACHAN, 1785 |
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... Grammar , " to be laid in a certain diftant refemblance , or analogy , to the natural distinction of the two sexes . THUS , according to him , we commonly give the masculine gender to those substantive nouns used figuratively , which ...
... Grammar , " to be laid in a certain diftant refemblance , or analogy , to the natural distinction of the two sexes . THUS , according to him , we commonly give the masculine gender to those substantive nouns used figuratively , which ...
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