 | History - 1796 - 690 pages
...original import means exility of particles, it taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of diftindion. Thofe writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greamefs ; for great things can. not have efcaped former obfervation. Their attempts were always analytick... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 358 pages
...great propriety that Subtlety, which in its original import means exility of particks, is taken in ks metaphorical meaning for nicety of diftinction. Thofe writers who lay on the watqh for novelty could have little hope of greatnefe ;. for greatthings cannot have efcaped .former... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1780 - 590 pages
...particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of diAinclion. Thofe writers v, ho layon the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatnefs...efcaped former obfervation. Their attempts were always analytic ; they broke every im.-.ge into fragments; and could no more reprefent, by their Hender conceits... | |
 | Books - 1780 - 596 pages
...defcriptions not defcending to minutenefs. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in its original import means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of diftinfiion. Thofe writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatnefs ; for... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1780 - 590 pages
...defcriptions not defcending to minutenefs. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which iu its original import means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of dillinclion. Thofe writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatnefs; for... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1780 - 726 pages
...defcriptions not defending to minuteneis. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in its original import means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of diftinftion. Thofe writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatnefs ; for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...defcending to minutenefs. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in its original im« port means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical...greatnefs; for great things cannot have efcaped former mer obfervation. Their attempts were always analytick; they broke every image into fragments; and could... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...defcriptions not defcending to minutenefs. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in its original import means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of diftincYion. Thofe writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of grcatnds; for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...defcriptions not dcfcending to minutenefs. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in its original import means exility of particles, is taken in its...meaning for nicety of diftinction. Thofe writers who lie on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatnefs; for great things cannot haveefcaped... | |
 | History - 1796 - 692 pages
...exility of particles; it taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of dillinclion. Thofe wiiters who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatnds ; for great things can'not have eicaped former oblervation. Their attempts were always analytick... | |
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Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. 
