The Works of Richard Hurd, Lord Bishop of Worcester: Critical worksT. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1811 - Theology, Doctrinal |
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... Bifhop of Worcester . I. Gainsborough pinx . I. Hull sculp From the Original Picture in the Possession of her Majesty . Published March 1181 by T.Cadell & W.Davies , Strand London . THE WORKS OF RICHARD HURD , D. D. LORD BISHOP. and.
... Bifhop of Worcester . I. Gainsborough pinx . I. Hull sculp From the Original Picture in the Possession of her Majesty . Published March 1181 by T.Cadell & W.Davies , Strand London . THE WORKS OF RICHARD HURD , D. D. LORD BISHOP. and.
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... original error have been long felt . It hath occasioned a cortant perplexity in defining the general method , and in fixing the import of particular rules . Nay its effects have reached still further . For , conceiving as they did ...
... original error have been long felt . It hath occasioned a cortant perplexity in defining the general method , and in fixing the import of particular rules . Nay its effects have reached still further . For , conceiving as they did ...
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... original : though both flourished at the same time , and are both wholly Roman . I. The former , or DIDACTIC epistle , was , in fact , the true and proper offspring of the SATIRE . It will be worth while to reflect how this happened ...
... original : though both flourished at the same time , and are both wholly Roman . I. The former , or DIDACTIC epistle , was , in fact , the true and proper offspring of the SATIRE . It will be worth while to reflect how this happened ...
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... original fiction . " Apply now this sense of junctura to words , and we are only told , that expression may be so ordered as to appear new , when the words , of which it is made up , are all known and common . We have then the authority ...
... original fiction . " Apply now this sense of junctura to words , and we are only told , that expression may be so ordered as to appear new , when the words , of which it is made up , are all known and common . We have then the authority ...
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... original forms ; and are , each , the perfect copies of other . All which will be clearly understood by applying these general obser- vations to the instances in view . The passion of ANGER rouses all the native fire and energy of the ...
... original forms ; and are , each , the perfect copies of other . All which will be clearly understood by applying these general obser- vations to the instances in view . The passion of ANGER rouses all the native fire and energy of the ...
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Page 78 - That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct As water is in water.
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Page 57 - Tu nihil invita dices faciesve Minerva ; 385 Id tibi judicium est, ea mens ; si quid tamen olim Scripseris, in Maeci descendat judicis aures Et patris et nostras, nonumque prematur in annum : Membranis intus positis delere licebit, Quod non edideris ; nescit vox missa reverti.
Page 61 - Transverso calamo signum ; ambitiosa recidet Ornamenta ; parum claris lucem dare coget ; Arguet ambigue dictum ; mutanda notabit ; Fiet Aristarchus ; non dicet, Cur ego amicum 450 Offendam in nugis ? Hae nugae seria ducent In mala derisum semel, exceptumque sinistre.
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