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Page xxi
... feems to expect an answer , fhould al- most always be elevated at the clofe , with a pe- culiar tone , to indicate that a queftion is afked . Some fentences are fo conftructed , that the laft word requires a ftronger emphafis than any ...
... feems to expect an answer , fhould al- most always be elevated at the clofe , with a pe- culiar tone , to indicate that a queftion is afked . Some fentences are fo conftructed , that the laft word requires a ftronger emphafis than any ...
Page 13
... feems owing to fimplicity . Every noble truth and sentiment was expreffed by the former in a natural man- ner , in word and phrase fimple , perfpicuous , and incapable of improvement . What then remained for later writers , but ...
... feems owing to fimplicity . Every noble truth and sentiment was expreffed by the former in a natural man- ner , in word and phrase fimple , perfpicuous , and incapable of improvement . What then remained for later writers , but ...
Page 69
... feems to carry- Chufe , not alone a proper mate , But proper time to marry . COWPER . CHA P. XXIV . THE NEEDLESS ALARM . A TALE . HERE is a field through which 1 often pass , T Thick overfpread with mofs and filky grass , Adjoining ...
... feems to carry- Chufe , not alone a proper mate , But proper time to marry . COWPER . CHA P. XXIV . THE NEEDLESS ALARM . A TALE . HERE is a field through which 1 often pass , T Thick overfpread with mofs and filky grass , Adjoining ...
Page 79
... feems to have made a refolution to do ill even in fpite of himself , and in defiance of all thofe checks and reftraints his temper and complexion feem to have laid in his way . UPON the whole , I would endeavour to establish this maxim ...
... feems to have made a refolution to do ill even in fpite of himself , and in defiance of all thofe checks and reftraints his temper and complexion feem to have laid in his way . UPON the whole , I would endeavour to establish this maxim ...
Page 98
... feems very much to resemble instinct . It would be improper , therefore , to fay , that Sir Ifaac Newton fhewed his good fenfe , by those amazing discoveries which he made in natural philofophy ; the operations of this gift of Heaven ...
... feems very much to resemble instinct . It would be improper , therefore , to fay , that Sir Ifaac Newton fhewed his good fenfe , by those amazing discoveries which he made in natural philofophy ; the operations of this gift of Heaven ...
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