The Port Folio, Volume 5Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1811 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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... style of life and habits is necessary to the full understanding of his writings . Different persons would however require different points to be developed . The disciples of Montesquieu would ask to be ac- quainted with the region of ...
... style of life and habits is necessary to the full understanding of his writings . Different persons would however require different points to be developed . The disciples of Montesquieu would ask to be ac- quainted with the region of ...
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... style . SIR . To the President of the Institute of France . Notwithstanding the decided advantages of oil - painting in solidity of colour , and , in some measure , the certainty of execu- tion , painters have more or less complained of ...
... style . SIR . To the President of the Institute of France . Notwithstanding the decided advantages of oil - painting in solidity of colour , and , in some measure , the certainty of execu- tion , painters have more or less complained of ...
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... style or manner of think- ing , and the language or channel through which his sentiments are communicated . Orations may be considered of three kinds , viz . demonstra- tive , deliberative , and judicial . Of the demonstrative kind are ...
... style or manner of think- ing , and the language or channel through which his sentiments are communicated . Orations may be considered of three kinds , viz . demonstra- tive , deliberative , and judicial . Of the demonstrative kind are ...
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... style of middle life , except only the use of that elegant luxury called à coach . From the habit of transacting business in the absence of their husbands , women are frequently concerned in mercantile affairs and manage them to ...
... style of middle life , except only the use of that elegant luxury called à coach . From the habit of transacting business in the absence of their husbands , women are frequently concerned in mercantile affairs and manage them to ...
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... style bad enough — but what confounds him is that it is signed D'Estè , and not Tarnaud . As soon as dinner was over , he takes aside one of his guests , to whom he communicates the contents of the packet . His friend sets off ...
... style bad enough — but what confounds him is that it is signed D'Estè , and not Tarnaud . As soon as dinner was over , he takes aside one of his guests , to whom he communicates the contents of the packet . His friend sets off ...
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