The Port Folio, Volume 2Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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... necessary to give energy to language , must ever be considered as subject to the pre- cision of grammatical truth : for if a correct observance of the laws of orthography and syntax do not accompany the reader's orthoepy and emphasis ...
... necessary to give energy to language , must ever be considered as subject to the pre- cision of grammatical truth : for if a correct observance of the laws of orthography and syntax do not accompany the reader's orthoepy and emphasis ...
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... necessary to awa- ken attention and thereby to enforce sentiment , it would be better that such attention should remain asleep , than be awakened by those means which serve to mislead the judgment and to communicate error . Reading ...
... necessary to awa- ken attention and thereby to enforce sentiment , it would be better that such attention should remain asleep , than be awakened by those means which serve to mislead the judgment and to communicate error . Reading ...
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... necessary to penetrate their causes , and these , though the historians relate them , are uncertain , imaginary , or received from the voice of the vulgar , the blind , the ignorant , for few or none of those who write were present at ...
... necessary to penetrate their causes , and these , though the historians relate them , are uncertain , imaginary , or received from the voice of the vulgar , the blind , the ignorant , for few or none of those who write were present at ...
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... necessary to pay them in order to make them speak or be silent ; and they would be the worst people in the world if there were no physicians ; for if the law- yers consume our property , these destroy our lives . The discretion of a ...
... necessary to pay them in order to make them speak or be silent ; and they would be the worst people in the world if there were no physicians ; for if the law- yers consume our property , these destroy our lives . The discretion of a ...
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... necessary , as the precious metals are found combined with such quantities of vile matter , that if they were not purified and formed by the fire and the hammer , they would re- main forever concealed ; thus it requires much care and ...
... necessary , as the precious metals are found combined with such quantities of vile matter , that if they were not purified and formed by the fire and the hammer , they would re- main forever concealed ; thus it requires much care and ...
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