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... French esprit , or bel esprit , though on some occasions rightly translated wit , hath commonly a signification more extensive and generical . It must be owned , indeed , that in conformity to the style of French critics , the term wit ...
... French esprit , or bel esprit , though on some occasions rightly translated wit , hath commonly a signification more extensive and generical . It must be owned , indeed , that in conformity to the style of French critics , the term wit ...
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... French philosopher of the present century , in a book entitled Traité des Premières Véritez ; one who , to an uncommon degree of acuteness in matters of abstraction , added that solidity of judgment which hath prevented in him , what ...
... French philosopher of the present century , in a book entitled Traité des Premières Véritez ; one who , to an uncommon degree of acuteness in matters of abstraction , added that solidity of judgment which hath prevented in him , what ...
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... French dic- tionary that the Italian word pecora corresponds to the French word brebis , and from a French and English dictionary , that the French brebis corresponds to the English sheep . Hence I form this argument , " Pecora is the ...
... French dic- tionary that the Italian word pecora corresponds to the French word brebis , and from a French and English dictionary , that the French brebis corresponds to the English sheep . Hence I form this argument , " Pecora is the ...
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... French crit- ics have aptly enough denominated in their language vrai- semblance , the English critics more improperly in theirs prob- ability . In order to avoid the manifest ambiguity there is in this application of the word , it had ...
... French crit- ics have aptly enough denominated in their language vrai- semblance , the English critics more improperly in theirs prob- ability . In order to avoid the manifest ambiguity there is in this application of the word , it had ...
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... entered into the subject , those who seem most to merit our regard are two French critics , and one of our own country . SECTION I. THE DIFFERENT SOLUTIONS HITHERTO GIVEN BY PHILOSOPHERS EX- THE PHILOSOPHY OF RHETORIC . 135.
... entered into the subject , those who seem most to merit our regard are two French critics , and one of our own country . SECTION I. THE DIFFERENT SOLUTIONS HITHERTO GIVEN BY PHILOSOPHERS EX- THE PHILOSOPHY OF RHETORIC . 135.
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Page 130 - For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ...
Page 33 - The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn...
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Page 197 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold: Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Page 311 - Some say, he bid his angels turn askance The poles of earth, twice ten degrees and more, From the sun's axle: they with labour push'd Oblique the centric globe.
Page 432 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Page 355 - That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.
Page 20 - I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to show why, And tell what rules he did it by ; Else when with greatest art he spoke, You'd think he talk'd like other folk ; For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools.
Page 66 - ... the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.
Page 248 - To this succeeded that licentiousness which entered with the restoration, and, from infecting our religion and morals, fell to corrupt our language...