Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations: Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons, Volume 1S. Walker, 1826 - English letters |
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Page xii
... language , invariably forming his sentences with a regard to rythmical proportion . His reading may be said to have been nearly universal ; as notwithstanding his almost idolatrous regard for the dead languages , he was not less ...
... language , invariably forming his sentences with a regard to rythmical proportion . His reading may be said to have been nearly universal ; as notwithstanding his almost idolatrous regard for the dead languages , he was not less ...
Page 336
... Language which we ed his meaning ; but they will sel- speak ; in opposition to words and dom be inclined to take up his work phrases that are imported from a second time . other Languages , or that are obso- Authors sometimes plead the ...
... Language which we ed his meaning ; but they will sel- speak ; in opposition to words and dom be inclined to take up his work phrases that are imported from a second time . other Languages , or that are obso- Authors sometimes plead the ...
Page 342
... language , distinct and pure ; solidity of matter is requisite ; and any further ornament he gives him- entire perspicuity of language . Aris- self no trouble about , either , because totle is the complete example of a he thinks it ...
... language , distinct and pure ; solidity of matter is requisite ; and any further ornament he gives him- entire perspicuity of language . Aris- self no trouble about , either , because totle is the complete example of a he thinks it ...
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