Elements of Criticism, Volume 2Neill, 1807 - Criticism |
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... fingle expiration of air from the wind - pipe , through the cavity of the mouth . By varying this cavity , the different vowels are found- ed ; for the air in paffing through cavities differing in fize , produceth various founds , fome ...
... fingle expiration of air from the wind - pipe , through the cavity of the mouth . By varying this cavity , the different vowels are found- ed ; for the air in paffing through cavities differing in fize , produceth various founds , fome ...
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... fingle found : every one who has an ear must be fenfible , that the diphthong oi or ai is more agreeable than any of these vowels pro- nounced fingly : the fame holds where a confo- nant enters into the double found ; the fyllable le ...
... fingle found : every one who has an ear must be fenfible , that the diphthong oi or ai is more agreeable than any of these vowels pro- nounced fingly : the fame holds where a confo- nant enters into the double found ; the fyllable le ...
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... fingle without making a part of the feries : but the fecond object , by means of contraft , appears greater than when viewed fingly and apart ; and the fame effect is perceived in afcending progreffively , till we arrive at the last ...
... fingle without making a part of the feries : but the fecond object , by means of contraft , appears greater than when viewed fingly and apart ; and the fame effect is perceived in afcending progreffively , till we arrive at the last ...
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... fingle words , to proceed from the greater to the lefs , but from the lefs to the greater . In arranging the members of a period , no writer equals Cicero : the beauty of the following examples out of many , will not fuf- fer me to flur ...
... fingle words , to proceed from the greater to the lefs , but from the lefs to the greater . In arranging the members of a period , no writer equals Cicero : the beauty of the following examples out of many , will not fuf- fer me to flur ...
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... fingle him out among the moderns , because he had the foolish prefumption to cenfure Tacitus , and to write history himself ; and your Lordship will forgive this short excurfion in honour of a favourite writer . Letters on Hiftory , Vol ...
... fingle him out among the moderns , because he had the foolish prefumption to cenfure Tacitus , and to write history himself ; and your Lordship will forgive this short excurfion in honour of a favourite writer . Letters on Hiftory , Vol ...
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