The Port Folio, Volume 2Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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Page 33
... opinion of Americans ! Their connexion with us , as natives of a common country , may rescue them from our contempt , and prompt us to extenuate the censure , by extending it from Americans to men ; and by studied comparisons , to show ...
... opinion of Americans ! Their connexion with us , as natives of a common country , may rescue them from our contempt , and prompt us to extenuate the censure , by extending it from Americans to men ; and by studied comparisons , to show ...
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... opinion I am in a degree supported by a declaration , made in an official proclama- tion of Dessalines , in which he states his military force to be 60,000 . About one - sixth of the population of a country is usually considered as ...
... opinion I am in a degree supported by a declaration , made in an official proclama- tion of Dessalines , in which he states his military force to be 60,000 . About one - sixth of the population of a country is usually considered as ...
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... opinion of the merits , or demerits of the Muse of SOUTHEY . That he is a man of Genius and a Poet of great sensibility , we are by no means disposed to deny ; moreover , in a spirit of the most liberal candor , we declare distinctly ...
... opinion of the merits , or demerits of the Muse of SOUTHEY . That he is a man of Genius and a Poet of great sensibility , we are by no means disposed to deny ; moreover , in a spirit of the most liberal candor , we declare distinctly ...
Page 69
... opinion from those who maintain that Shakspeare had drawn a character altogether unnatural , and one which he himself did not understand . A desire to vindicate a favourite production of a favourite author , has induced me to throw ...
... opinion from those who maintain that Shakspeare had drawn a character altogether unnatural , and one which he himself did not understand . A desire to vindicate a favourite production of a favourite author , has induced me to throw ...
Page 85
... passage in a writer , whose rhetorical skill entitles his opinions to be received as the gospel of oratory . Accent is subject to the caprice of fashion . Ancient. TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS . 85 tity, ment 89-180 Lecture on Quan-
... passage in a writer , whose rhetorical skill entitles his opinions to be received as the gospel of oratory . Accent is subject to the caprice of fashion . Ancient. TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS . 85 tity, ment 89-180 Lecture on Quan-
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