The Port Folio, Volume 5Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1811 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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Page 234
... remarkable , and that , in gene- ral , the more correct a person is in speaking the fewer will be the inaccuracies perceivable in his writings . This , in- dependent of any other consideration , is sufficient to il- lustrate the ...
... remarkable , and that , in gene- ral , the more correct a person is in speaking the fewer will be the inaccuracies perceivable in his writings . This , in- dependent of any other consideration , is sufficient to il- lustrate the ...
Page 236
... remarkable in the conversation of the speaker , becomes also a characteristic of his public ora- tory . The prejudicial effects that may result from too unlimited an indulgence of an inclination for writing are not however to be slight ...
... remarkable in the conversation of the speaker , becomes also a characteristic of his public ora- tory . The prejudicial effects that may result from too unlimited an indulgence of an inclination for writing are not however to be slight ...
Page 241
... remarkable for the decorum of their manners , the purity of their morals , and their uniform observance of the duties of religion . Advantages like these are truly invaluable in relation to an academical establish- ment ; for to prepare ...
... remarkable for the decorum of their manners , the purity of their morals , and their uniform observance of the duties of religion . Advantages like these are truly invaluable in relation to an academical establish- ment ; for to prepare ...
Page 310
... remarkable in his history is , that though an Irishman , beggared in his fortune and ruined in his prospects , by an unlooked for and disastrous event , bearing evidently some relation to politics , he is still enthusiastically attached ...
... remarkable in his history is , that though an Irishman , beggared in his fortune and ruined in his prospects , by an unlooked for and disastrous event , bearing evidently some relation to politics , he is still enthusiastically attached ...
Page 335
... remarkable for the frequency with which its inhabitants are attacked by the loathsome disease called scurvy . A considerable quantity of fine coffee is transported from this town to the Cape ( from which it is distant about ten leagues ) ...
... remarkable for the frequency with which its inhabitants are attacked by the loathsome disease called scurvy . A considerable quantity of fine coffee is transported from this town to the Cape ( from which it is distant about ten leagues ) ...
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