Writings of Hugh Swinton Legaré, Late Attorney General and Acting Secretary of State of the United States: Consisting of a Diary of Brussels, and Journal of the Rhine : Extracts from His Private and Diplomatic Correspondence : Orations and Speeches : and Contributions to the New-York and Southern Reviews : Prefaced by a Memoir of His Life, Embellished with a Portrait, Band 2Burges & James, 1845 |
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... style of this address , although occasionally too florid and ambitious , is in general , however , very good . We were particularly pleased with those idiomatic turns of expression with which it abounds , and a certain air of collo ...
... style of this address , although occasionally too florid and ambitious , is in general , however , very good . We were particularly pleased with those idiomatic turns of expression with which it abounds , and a certain air of collo ...
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... style and execution are concerned , in poetry , in eloquence , in the nar- rative part of history , & c . , while he objects to them a want of practical usefulness and of adaptation to the condition and cha- racteristics of society in ...
... style and execution are concerned , in poetry , in eloquence , in the nar- rative part of history , & c . , while he objects to them a want of practical usefulness and of adaptation to the condition and cha- racteristics of society in ...
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... style of the classical authors , which is so remark- able for clearness and simplicity now , was originally cabalistic or esoterical on purpose that " the people " should not understand and profit by them , in imitation of what has been ...
... style of the classical authors , which is so remark- able for clearness and simplicity now , was originally cabalistic or esoterical on purpose that " the people " should not understand and profit by them , in imitation of what has been ...
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... style , of which the faultless execution is the best discipline of taste , whilst its glowing eloquence fills every generous bosom with the most elevated and ennobling moral enthusiasm.§ * Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments . + We ...
... style , of which the faultless execution is the best discipline of taste , whilst its glowing eloquence fills every generous bosom with the most elevated and ennobling moral enthusiasm.§ * Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments . + We ...
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... Style . This distinction would form the subject of a very interesting in- quiry , but we have not time to enter into it here . It may be as well , however , to expose the fallacy of one inference which we have known to be drawn from ...
... Style . This distinction would form the subject of a very interesting in- quiry , but we have not time to enter into it here . It may be as well , however , to expose the fallacy of one inference which we have known to be drawn from ...
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