The Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres; Or, An Introduction to Languages, Poetry, Rhetorick, History, Moral Philosophy, Physicks, &c. ...W. Strahan, 1769 - Education |
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... same terms this author does in fpeaking of one of his bro- ther academicians ; to which I would willingly fub- join , " and his manner of expreffing it . " We there find fome images copied from nature ; and very fimple , but at the fame ...
... same terms this author does in fpeaking of one of his bro- ther academicians ; to which I would willingly fub- join , " and his manner of expreffing it . " We there find fome images copied from nature ; and very fimple , but at the fame ...
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... hiftory of his consulship , will ever be juftly looked upon as a fhining monument of $ - Epift . 2 , and 4. lib . 14 , ad famil , Epift . 12. 1. v , ad famil . his eloquence , and at the same time of his his 74 General reflections on.
... hiftory of his consulship , will ever be juftly looked upon as a fhining monument of $ - Epift . 2 , and 4. lib . 14 , ad famil , Epift . 12. 1. v , ad famil . his eloquence , and at the same time of his his 74 General reflections on.
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Charles Rollin. his eloquence , and at the same time of his vanity . I have taken notice , in another place , of his beautiful epiftle to his brother Quintus , in which all the graces and refinements of art are comprised . His treatifes ...
Charles Rollin. his eloquence , and at the same time of his vanity . I have taken notice , in another place , of his beautiful epiftle to his brother Quintus , in which all the graces and refinements of art are comprised . His treatifes ...
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... same time very fit to attract and dazzle the eyes of the people . k Hæc ætas effudit hanc co- piam : & , ut opinio mea fert , fuc- cus ille & fanguis incorruptus uf- que ad hanc ætatem oratorum fuit , in qua naturalis ineffet , non fuca ...
... same time very fit to attract and dazzle the eyes of the people . k Hæc ætas effudit hanc co- piam : & , ut opinio mea fert , fuc- cus ille & fanguis incorruptus uf- que ad hanc ætatem oratorum fuit , in qua naturalis ineffet , non fuca ...
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... same time , the anger of the " emperor , and the blind fury of the people ; in this " confifts the glory of our holy religion . " You declare with indignation , that he made laws " for shutting up this facred afylum . But , O man ...
... same time , the anger of the " emperor , and the blind fury of the people ; in this " confifts the glory of our holy religion . " You declare with indignation , that he made laws " for shutting up this facred afylum . But , O man ...
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