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Page 118
... whole . In the Hebrew language per- haps this licence is more admiffible , than in any other . A day and a night complete one whole day ; and as our Saviour lay in the ground a part of every one of thefe three portions of time , he ...
... whole . In the Hebrew language per- haps this licence is more admiffible , than in any other . A day and a night complete one whole day ; and as our Saviour lay in the ground a part of every one of thefe three portions of time , he ...
Page 422
... whole has been furveyed ; there is a kind of intellectual remotenefs neceflary for the comprehenfion of any great work in its full defign and in its true proportions ; a clofe approach fhews the Imaller niceties ; but the beauty of the ...
... whole has been furveyed ; there is a kind of intellectual remotenefs neceflary for the comprehenfion of any great work in its full defign and in its true proportions ; a clofe approach fhews the Imaller niceties ; but the beauty of the ...
Page 437
... whole in a more di- verting manner to the understanding . I fhall give one inftance out of a mul titude of this nature that might be found in the Georgics , where the reader may fee the different ways Virgil has taken to exprefs the ...
... whole in a more di- verting manner to the understanding . I fhall give one inftance out of a mul titude of this nature that might be found in the Georgics , where the reader may fee the different ways Virgil has taken to exprefs the ...
Contents
Diversity of Geniuses | 36 |
The Manners of a Bookfeller | 42 |
Epicuruss Character | 48 |
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