Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 2Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 - English literature |
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... reason , force of style , or brightness of imagination ; and Lord Orrery , at a much later period , is of opinion , that " Lord Bacom is the first author who has attempted any style that can be relishable to the present age . ” That the ...
... reason , force of style , or brightness of imagination ; and Lord Orrery , at a much later period , is of opinion , that " Lord Bacom is the first author who has attempted any style that can be relishable to the present age . ” That the ...
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... reason thereof is its continuity ; as having its earthly and salinous parts so exactly resolved , that its body is left imporous , and not discreted by atomical terminations . For that continuity of parts is the cause of prespicuity ...
... reason thereof is its continuity ; as having its earthly and salinous parts so exactly resolved , that its body is left imporous , and not discreted by atomical terminations . For that continuity of parts is the cause of prespicuity ...
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... Reason of Church Government urged against Prelacy . In this pro- duction he nobly declares , and in the spirit of sincerity and truth , his motives for the under- taking . The passage is forcible and eloquent , * Urquhart's Vindication ...
... Reason of Church Government urged against Prelacy . In this pro- duction he nobly declares , and in the spirit of sincerity and truth , his motives for the under- taking . The passage is forcible and eloquent , * Urquhart's Vindication ...
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... Reason of Church Government : " Time serves not now , and , perhaps , I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home , in the spacious circuits of her musing , hath , liberty to propose to herself , though ...
... Reason of Church Government : " Time serves not now , and , perhaps , I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home , in the spacious circuits of her musing , hath , liberty to propose to herself , though ...
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... reason , for he enjoyed so plentiful and honour- able a fortune in a most excellent country , as allowed him all the real conveniences of it , separated and purged from the incommodities . If I were but in his condition , I should think ...
... reason , for he enjoyed so plentiful and honour- able a fortune in a most excellent country , as allowed him all the real conveniences of it , separated and purged from the incommodities . If I were but in his condition , I should think ...
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