 | Letter writing - 1803 - 268 pages
...to the mean, to the learned and to the ignorant, at -rest and in distress, in sport and in passion. Nothing can be more, improper than ease and laxity...solicitude, or the dignity of the person exacts reverence. That letters should be written with strict conformity to nature is true, because nothing but conformity... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 296 pages
...and to the mean, to the learned and the ignorant, at rest and in distress, in sport and in passion. Nothing can be more improper than ease and laxity...solicitude, or the dignity of the person exacts reverence. That letters should be written with strict conformity to nature is true, because nothing but conformity... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 354 pages
...and to the mean, to the learned and the ignorant, at rest and in distress, in sport and in passion. Nothing can be more improper than ease and laxity...solicitude, or the dignity of the person. exacts reverence. That letters should be written with strict conformity to nature is true, because nothing but conformity... | |
 | 1806 - 340 pages
...a:nd to the mean, to the learned and the ignorant, at rest and in distress, in sport and in passion. Nothing can be more improper than ease and laxity...solicitude, or the dignity of the person exacts reverence. If the personages of the comick scene be allowed by Horace to raise their language in the transport*... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 310 pages
...and to the mean, to the learned and the ignorant, at rest and in distress, in sport and in passion. Nothing can be more improper than ease and laxity...solicitude, or the dignity of the person exacts reverence. That letters should be written with strict conformity to nature is true, because nothing but conformity... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 412 pages
...and to the mean, to the learned and the ignorant, at rest and in distress, in sport and in passion. Nothing can be more improper than ease and laxity...solicitude, or the dignity of the person exacts reverence. That letters should be written with strict conformity to nature is true, because nothing but conformity... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 416 pages
...and to the mean, to the learned and the ignorant, at rest and in distress, in sport and in passion. Nothing can be more improper than ease and laxity of expression, when the importance of the subi ject impresses solicitude, or the dignity of the person exacts reverence. That letters should... | |
 | Frank Elizabeth - 1814 - 400 pages
...and to the mean, to the learned and the ignorant; at rest and in distress; in sport and in passion. Nothing can be more improper than ease and laxity...or the dignity of the person exacts reverence.— That letters should be written with strict conformity to nature is true, because nothing but conformity... | |
 | Elizabeth Frank - English language - 1814 - 400 pages
...and to the mean, to the learned and the ignorant; at rest and in distress; in sport and in passion. Nothing can be more improper than ease and laxity...solicitude, or the dignity of the person exacts reverence. — That letters should be written with strict conformity to nature is true, btcause nothing but conformity... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 448 pages
...and to the mean, to the learned and the ignorant, at rest and in distress, in sport and in passion. Nothing can be more improper than ease and laxity...impresses solicitude, or the dignity of the person e*acts reverence. That letters should be written with strict conformity to nature is true, because... | |
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But these directions are no sooner applied to use, than their scantiness and imperfection become evident. Letters are written to the great and to the mean, to the learned and the ignorant, at rest and in distress, in sport and in passion. Nothing can... 
