 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 486 pages
...parish was, " our doctor gave us but " an indifferent sermon to day." Now among us, many clergymen act so directly contrary to this method, that from...acquired at the university, they write in so diminutive a manner, with such frequent blots and interlineations, that they are hardly able to go on without perpetual... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1807 - 406 pages
...nature is the following inaccuracy of Dean Swift's. He is recommending to young clergymen, towrite their sermons fully and distinctly. " Many," says...paper, " which they acquired at the university, they writa in so dimin" utive a manner, that they can hardly read what they have " written." He certainly... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 554 pages
...the parish was, " our doctor gave us but an indifferent sermon to-day." Now among us, many clergymen act so directly contrary to this method, that from...acquired at the University, they write in so diminutive a manner, with such frequent blots "and interlineations, that they are hardly able to go on without perpetual... | |
 | John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...of the where a party of the royInelegant. •where a royalists had fortified themselves. Many act so contrary to this method, that from a habit of saving...acquired at the university, they write in so diminutive a manner, that they can hardly read what alists had fortified themselves. Many act so contrary to this... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1812 - 224 pages
...opposition to them. It has not a word, says Pope, but what the author religiously thinks in it. Many act so directly contrary to this method, that, from...acquired at the university, they write in so diminutive a manner, that tht-y can hardly read what they have written. Thus I have fairly given you my own opinion,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 378 pages
...the parish was, " our doctor gave us but an indifferent sermon to-day." Wow among us, many clergymen act so directly contrary to this method, that from...which they acquired at the university, they write in se diminutive a manner, with such frequent blots and interlineations, that they are hardly able to... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...among us many clergymen act so directly contrary to this method, that, from a habit of saving lime, and paper, which they acquired at the university, they write in so diminutive a manner, with such frequent blots and interlineations, that voL. II. R they are hardly able to go on... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 462 pages
...the parish was, " our doctor gave us but an indifferent sermon to-day." Now among us, many clergymen act so directly contrary to this method, that from...acquired at the University, they write in so diminutive a manner, with such frequent blots and interlineations, that they are hardly able to go on without perpetual... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 470 pages
...the parish was, " our doctor gave us but an indifferent sermon to-day." Now among us, many clergymen act so directly contrary to this method, that from...acquired at the University, they write in so diminutive a manner, with such frequent blots and interlineations, that they are hardly able to go on without perpetual... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1815 - 582 pages
...heavenly Father.' Of the like nature is the following inaccuracy of Dean Swift's. He is recommending to young clergymen, to write their sermons fully and...acquired at the university, they write in so diminutive a manner, that they can hardly read what they have written.' He certainly does not mean, that they had... | |
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Now among us, many clergymen act so directly contrary to this method, that from a habit of saving time and paper, which they acquired at the University, they write in so diminutive a manner... 
