 | Richard Whately - Rhetoric - 1839 - 372 pages
...case in mixed metaphor, a thing not unfrequent even in good writers. Thus, when Addison remarks that ' there is not a single view of human nature, which...not sufficient to extinguish the seeds of pride,' he expresses a true sentiment somewhat incongruously ; for the terms extinguish and seeds here metaphorically... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1840 - 262 pages
...and a ship at one moment ; bridled, to hinder it from launching. The same author, elsewhere, says, " There is not a single view of human nature, which...not sufficient to extinguish the seeds of pride." Observe the incoherence of the things here joined together •, making a view extinguish, and extinguish... | |
 | George Campbell - Theology - 1840 - 450 pages
...case in mixed metaphor, a thing not unfrequent even in good writers. Thus, when Addison remarks that " there is not a single view of human nature, which...not sufficient to extinguish the seeds of pride," he expresses a true sentiment somewhat incongruously ; for the terms extinguish and seedshere metaphorically... | |
 | Richard Whately (abp. of Dublin.) - 1841 - 558 pages
...case in mixed metaphor, a thing not unfrequent even in good writers. Thus, when Addison remarks that ' there is not a single view of human nature, which...not sufficient to extinguish the seeds of pride,' he expresses a true sentiment somewhat incongruously ; for the terms extinguish and seeds here metaphorically... | |
 | Richard Whately - English language - 1841 - 374 pages
...in mixed metaphor, a thing not unfrequent even in good writers. " Thus, when Addison remarks that ' there is not a single view of human nature, which...is not sufficient to extinguish the seeds of pride, " he expresses a true sentiment somewhat incongruously ; for the terms extinguish and seeds here metaphorically... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1843 - 326 pages
...shelter Addison in his letter from Italy, says: The same author, elsewhere, says, " There is not a Dingle view of human nature, which is not sufficient to extinguish the seeds of pride." Observe the incoherence of the things here joined together ; making a view extinguish, and extinguish... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 396 pages
...into the heart more impercejjlibly, and covers itself under more diftgui*?.?, than pride ; and yet, there is not a single view of human nature, which is not sufficient to extinguish in us all the secret */?r/,v of pride and sink the conscious soul — tc the lowesi. .epths of humility.... | |
 | Charles P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 438 pages
...into the heart more imperceptibly, and covers itself under more disgitiаез, than pride; and yet, there is not a single view of human nature, which is not sufficient to extinguish in us all the secret seeds of pride, and sink the conscious soul — to the lowest depths of humility,... | |
 | Richard Hiley - English language - 1846 - 330 pages
...together in the same sentence. VIOLATIONS.—Addison, speaking of the frailty of our nature, says, " There is not a single view of human nature, which...not sufficient to extinguish the seeds of pride." A view may enable us to discover the beauty of an object, but can never be said to extinguish it.—"... | |
 | Richard Whately - English language - 1846 - 366 pages
...case in mixed metaphor, a thing not unfrequent even in good writers. Thus, when Addison remarks that ' there is not a single view of human nature, which...not sufficient to extinguish the seeds of pride,' he expresses a true sentiment somewhat incongruously ; for the the terms extinguish and seeds here... | |
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There is not a single view of human nature, which is not sufficient to extinguish the seeds of pride. 
