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... popular English writer , an example of a fault similar to that of Boileau . In one of Sydney Smith's articles on ... popular ever written by that deservedly popular writer , and it is included in his collected essays , which have gone ...
... popular English writer , an example of a fault similar to that of Boileau . In one of Sydney Smith's articles on ... popular ever written by that deservedly popular writer , and it is included in his collected essays , which have gone ...
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... popular recreations of Paganism . " - Ibid . Alison has some examples of the same fault : - " The study of a single character must , with her , be the work of nearly as much time and thought as their original conception by the dramatic ...
... popular recreations of Paganism . " - Ibid . Alison has some examples of the same fault : - " The study of a single character must , with her , be the work of nearly as much time and thought as their original conception by the dramatic ...
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... popular authors . The number of such words that has come under my notice exceeds three hundred . Among these different classes of foreign words , there are some which the most fastidious stickler for unadulterated English is ...
... popular authors . The number of such words that has come under my notice exceeds three hundred . Among these different classes of foreign words , there are some which the most fastidious stickler for unadulterated English is ...
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... popular but inconsistent political writer , who wrote upon momentary impulse . " - Ibid . A treatise by Cobbett , upon such a theme as " momentary impulse , " is a literary curiosity which has not yet been given to the world . " I ...
... popular but inconsistent political writer , who wrote upon momentary impulse . " - Ibid . A treatise by Cobbett , upon such a theme as " momentary impulse , " is a literary curiosity which has not yet been given to the world . " I ...
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... Popular Rhymes and Tales , " has this sentence : - " A number of curious memoranda , put together in a careless , slip - slop manner , that greatly deteriorates from their value . " - No . 1127 . Here " deteriorates " is incorrectly put ...
... Popular Rhymes and Tales , " has this sentence : - " A number of curious memoranda , put together in a careless , slip - slop manner , that greatly deteriorates from their value . " - No . 1127 . Here " deteriorates " is incorrectly put ...
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