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... style of man . But it is liable to many disadvantages ; and , though there be nothing that it involves too high for our pride , it is perhaps a method of investiga- tion incommenfurate to our powers . A mistake in the commencement is ...
... style of man . But it is liable to many disadvantages ; and , though there be nothing that it involves too high for our pride , it is perhaps a method of investiga- tion incommenfurate to our powers . A mistake in the commencement is ...
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... Style § . 1. Introduction 368 § . 2. Age of Queen Elizabeth 377 § . 3. Milton and Clarendon 402 § . 4. Age of Charles the Second 417 § . 5. Age of Queen Anne 435 § . 6. Age of George the Second 455 § . 7. Conclufion 472 THE THE ENQUIRER ...
... Style § . 1. Introduction 368 § . 2. Age of Queen Elizabeth 377 § . 3. Milton and Clarendon 402 § . 4. Age of Charles the Second 417 § . 5. Age of Queen Anne 435 § . 6. Age of George the Second 455 § . 7. Conclufion 472 THE THE ENQUIRER ...
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... style . It re- mains to compare their motives , and to confider which of them has familiarifed himself most truly with the principles of morality . It is not to be fuppofed , when a man , like the perfon of splendour and magnificence ...
... style . It re- mains to compare their motives , and to confider which of them has familiarifed himself most truly with the principles of morality . It is not to be fuppofed , when a man , like the perfon of splendour and magnificence ...
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... maintained are , that learn- ing is the ally , not the adversary of genius ; and that he who reads in a proper fpirit , can scarcely read too much . ESSAY ESSAY XII . OF ENGLISH STYLE . SECT . I. Effay XI . 367 Of Learning .
... maintained are , that learn- ing is the ally , not the adversary of genius ; and that he who reads in a proper fpirit , can scarcely read too much . ESSAY ESSAY XII . OF ENGLISH STYLE . SECT . I. Effay XI . 367 Of Learning .
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... STYLE . SECT . I. Introduction . No literary enquiry can be more interesting to an inhabitant of Great - Britain , than that re- specting the history of the English language , and particularly that ... Style . Of English Style Introduction.
... STYLE . SECT . I. Introduction . No literary enquiry can be more interesting to an inhabitant of Great - Britain , than that re- specting the history of the English language , and particularly that ... Style . Of English Style Introduction.
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