English Prose of the Eighteenth CenturyCecil Albert Moore H. Holt, 1933 - 929 Seiten |
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... reader cannot easily have forgot ) consisted in certain admirable rules about the wearing of their coats , in the perusal whereof the two brothers at every period duly comparing the doc- trine with the practice , there was never seen a ...
... reader cannot easily have forgot ) consisted in certain admirable rules about the wearing of their coats , in the perusal whereof the two brothers at every period duly comparing the doc- trine with the practice , there was never seen a ...
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... reader , which few of the critics besides Longinus have con- sidered . Our general taste in England is for epigram , turns of wit , and forced con- ceits , which have no manner of influence , either for the bettering or enlarging the ...
... reader , which few of the critics besides Longinus have con- sidered . Our general taste in England is for epigram , turns of wit , and forced con- ceits , which have no manner of influence , either for the bettering or enlarging the ...
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... reader as well as the writer , shall begin to creep upon him . Without inter- ruptions of this kind , the best narrative of plain matter of fact must overpower every reader ; for nothing but the ever- lasting watchfulness which Homer ...
... reader as well as the writer , shall begin to creep upon him . Without inter- ruptions of this kind , the best narrative of plain matter of fact must overpower every reader ; for nothing but the ever- lasting watchfulness which Homer ...
Inhalt
PREFACE | 4 |
THE POOR MANS PLEA | 14 |
THE SHORTEST WAY WITH THE DISSENTERS | 23 |
Urheberrecht | |
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