Literary Criticism of Seventeenth-century EnglandEdward W. Tayler |
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... understanding of the Persons , to whom you are to write ; the other is the coherence of your Sentence.2 For mens capacity to weigh , what will be ap- prehended with greatest attention , or leisure ; what next re- garded , and long'd for ...
... understanding of the Persons , to whom you are to write ; the other is the coherence of your Sentence.2 For mens capacity to weigh , what will be ap- prehended with greatest attention , or leisure ; what next re- garded , and long'd for ...
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Edward W. Tayler. little ; and a long Bill of Chancery confounds the understanding , as much as the shortest note . Therefore , let not your Letters be penn'd like English Statutes , and this is obtain'd . These vices are eschewed by ...
Edward W. Tayler. little ; and a long Bill of Chancery confounds the understanding , as much as the shortest note . Therefore , let not your Letters be penn'd like English Statutes , and this is obtain'd . These vices are eschewed by ...
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... understanding ( being by Philo- sophicall studie refined and illuminated ) knowes this sensible Beauty to bee but the image of another more pure and excellent , leaving the love of this , desire to see the other ; and persevering in ...
... understanding ( being by Philo- sophicall studie refined and illuminated ) knowes this sensible Beauty to bee but the image of another more pure and excellent , leaving the love of this , desire to see the other ; and persevering in ...
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