The Spectator ...Angier March, 1803 |
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Page 54
... endeavoured to rival one another in beards ; and represents a learned man who stood for a professorship in philosophy , as unqualified for it by the shortness of his beard . Ælian , in his account of Zoilus , the pretended critic , who ...
... endeavoured to rival one another in beards ; and represents a learned man who stood for a professorship in philosophy , as unqualified for it by the shortness of his beard . Ælian , in his account of Zoilus , the pretended critic , who ...
Page 86
... endeavoured to give the best reasons that could be urged in favour of a private or public education . Upon the whole , it may perhaps be thought that I seemed rather in- clined to the latter , though at the same time I con- fessed that ...
... endeavoured to give the best reasons that could be urged in favour of a private or public education . Upon the whole , it may perhaps be thought that I seemed rather in- clined to the latter , though at the same time I con- fessed that ...
Page 265
... endeavoured not only to prove that the poem is beautiful in general , but to point out its particular beauties ; and , to determine wherein they consist , I have endeavoured to shew how some passages are beautified by being sublime ...
... endeavoured not only to prove that the poem is beautiful in general , but to point out its particular beauties ; and , to determine wherein they consist , I have endeavoured to shew how some passages are beautified by being sublime ...
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