The Writer's Handbook, a Guide to the Art of Composition, Embracing a General Treatise on Composition and Style: Instruction in English Composition, with Exercises for Paraphrasing; and an Elaborate Letter-writer's Vademecum, in which are Numerous Rules and Suggestions Relating to the Epistolary Art, Volumes 1-3 |
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Page 55
... fancy , which makes the sense of right and wrong . " When he has occasion to mention self - examination , or reflection on our own conduct , he speaks of it as " the act of a man's dividing himself into two parties , becoming a self ...
... fancy , which makes the sense of right and wrong . " When he has occasion to mention self - examination , or reflection on our own conduct , he speaks of it as " the act of a man's dividing himself into two parties , becoming a self ...
Page 64
... fancy in dress and ornament . They were to be more secluded from observation . A greater play was to be given to sentiment and anticipation . Greater reserve was to accompany the commerce of the sexes . Modesty was to take the alarm ...
... fancy in dress and ornament . They were to be more secluded from observation . A greater play was to be given to sentiment and anticipation . Greater reserve was to accompany the commerce of the sexes . Modesty was to take the alarm ...
Page 75
... fancy . In what we read and what we hear , we always expect to find something with which we were formerly unacquainted ; and when this expectation is disappointed , we discover nothing to repay our attention . We are soon disgusted with ...
... fancy . In what we read and what we hear , we always expect to find something with which we were formerly unacquainted ; and when this expectation is disappointed , we discover nothing to repay our attention . We are soon disgusted with ...
Page 95
... fancy . I therefore thought it necessary to fix and determine the notion of these two words , as I intend to make use of them in the thread of my following speculations , that the reader may conceive rightly what is the subject which I ...
... fancy . I therefore thought it necessary to fix and determine the notion of these two words , as I intend to make use of them in the thread of my following speculations , that the reader may conceive rightly what is the subject which I ...
Page 97
... fancy , however , that this imitation , which passes so currently with other judgments , must at some time or other have stuck a little with your lordship . Shaftesbury on Enthusiasm . This sentence ought to have stood thus : " I cannot ...
... fancy , however , that this imitation , which passes so currently with other judgments , must at some time or other have stuck a little with your lordship . Shaftesbury on Enthusiasm . This sentence ought to have stood thus : " I cannot ...
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