 ... extremely prolix, formal, fententious, and argumentative. Inftead of writing like Frenchmen, -as they fpeak, they, on the contrary, fpeak as they write. They declaim inftead of talking; and one thinks they are always going to fupport a thefts.  Eloisa: Or a Series of Original Letters - Page 1301803Full view - About this book
 | SEVERAL HANDS - 1762 - 538 pages
...they are always going to fupport a Thefts. They divide their difcourfe into chapters and fections, and take the fame method in their converfation as...they were reading, ftri&ly obferving etymological distinctions, and pronouncing their words.exactly as they are fpelt: in fliort, their converfations... | |
 | Richard Porson, George Tierney - 1784 - 328 pages
...thinks they are always going to fupport a thefis. They divide their difcourfe into chapters and fe&ionf, and take the fame method in their converfation. as...they were reading, ftri&ly obferving etymological diftiniSions, and pronouncing their words exactly as they are fpelt: in fhort, their converfations... | |
 | 1784 - 312 pages
...thinks they are always going to fupport a thefis. They divide theirdifcourfe into chapters and fedlions, and take the fame method in their converfation as...in their books. They fpeak as if they were reading, ftridUy obferving etymological diftin<5tions, and pronouncing their words exactly as they are fpelt:... | |
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