The Speaker: Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers, and Disposed Under Proper Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking |
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... EXPRESSION . HERE the first quality to be confidered is PURITY . This confifts in fuch a choice of words , and fuch a grammatical conftruction of fentences , as is confonant to the analogy of the language , and to the general ufage of ...
... EXPRESSION . HERE the first quality to be confidered is PURITY . This confifts in fuch a choice of words , and fuch a grammatical conftruction of fentences , as is confonant to the analogy of the language , and to the general ufage of ...
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... expression , and has fo large a fhare in the pleasures produced by fine writing , that it deferves more attention , both among writers and critics , than the moderns have been inclined to allow it . Oratio vero , cujus fumma virtus eft ...
... expression , and has fo large a fhare in the pleasures produced by fine writing , that it deferves more attention , both among writers and critics , than the moderns have been inclined to allow it . Oratio vero , cujus fumma virtus eft ...
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