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... manners and unostentatious life , a lucid , fluent , and graceful speaker , and a sound lawyer . For most of the above biographical particulars , I grate- fully acknowledge my indebtedness to Dr. Clerk , of the Advocates ' Library ...
... manners and unostentatious life , a lucid , fluent , and graceful speaker , and a sound lawyer . For most of the above biographical particulars , I grate- fully acknowledge my indebtedness to Dr. Clerk , of the Advocates ' Library ...
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... manners , with remarks on the good and bad effects of it on them respectively . vols . Colchester , 1785 , 8vo . Murray , H. The Morality of Fiction ; or , an Inquiry into the Ten . dency of Fictitious Narrative , with Observations ...
... manners , with remarks on the good and bad effects of it on them respectively . vols . Colchester , 1785 , 8vo . Murray , H. The Morality of Fiction ; or , an Inquiry into the Ten . dency of Fictitious Narrative , with Observations ...
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... manner , among the mixed events of human life , he experiences some which are peculiarly grateful , and of which the narrative at once pleases him- self , and excites in the minds of his hearers a kindred emotion . Of this kind are ...
... manner , among the mixed events of human life , he experiences some which are peculiarly grateful , and of which the narrative at once pleases him- self , and excites in the minds of his hearers a kindred emotion . Of this kind are ...
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... manner , that the sympathy they excite can be heightened by removing from their detail every thing that is not in- teresting , or that tends to weaken the principal emotion , which it is his intention to raise . He renders , in this way ...
... manner , that the sympathy they excite can be heightened by removing from their detail every thing that is not in- teresting , or that tends to weaken the principal emotion , which it is his intention to raise . He renders , in this way ...
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... manners living as they rise . History treats of man , as it were , in the mass , and the individuals whom it paints are regarded merely , or principally , in a public light , without taking into consideration their private feelings ...
... manners living as they rise . History treats of man , as it were , in the mass , and the individuals whom it paints are regarded merely , or principally , in a public light , without taking into consideration their private feelings ...
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