 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1817 - 216 pages
...other, me naturally expect to find a similar correspondence in the words. Grammar, p. 281. Key, p. 136. OUR British gardeners, instead of humouring nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible. I have observed of late the style of some great ministers, very much to exceed that of any other productions.... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1817 - 516 pages
...plantations of another kind. ' Our British gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humouring nature, lore to deviate from it as much as possible. Our trees rise in cones, ftobes and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissars on every plant and bush.' These sentences are... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1819 - 550 pages
...beauty which distinguishes it from plantations of another kind. Our British gardeners on the contrary, instead of humouring nature, love to deviate from...cones, globes, and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissors on every plant and bush. These sentences are lively and elegant. They make an agreeable diversity... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1819 - 718 pages
...themselves correspond to each other, we naturally expect to find a similar correspondence in the words. OCR British gardeners, instead of humouring nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible. I have observed of late the style of some great ministers, very much to exceed that of any other productions.... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 538 pages
...beauty which distinguishes it from plantations of another kind. Our British gardeners on the contrary, instead of humouring nature, love to deviate from...globes, and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissars on every plant and bush. These sentences are lively and elegant. They make an agreeable diversity from... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 806 pages
...without discovering, what it is that has so agreeable an effect. Our British gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humouring nature, love to deviate from...cones, globes, and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissors upon every plant and bush. I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion, but, for my... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 682 pages
...without discovering what it is that has so agreeable an effect. Our British gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humouring nature, love to deviate from...cones, globes, and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissors upon every plant and bush. I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion, but, for my... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 322 pages
...without discovering what it is that has so agreeable an effect. Our British gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humouring nature, love to deviate from...cones, globes, and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissors upon every plant and bush. I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion, but, for my... | |
 | English essays - 1823 - 398 pages
...without discovering, what it is that has so agreeable an effect. Our British gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humouring nature, love to deviate from...cones, globes, and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissors upon every plant and bush. I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion, but, for my... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1823 - 236 pages
...other, we naturally expect to find a similar correspondence in the words. Grammar, p. 308. Key, p. 171. OUR British gardeners, instead of humouring nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible. I have observed of late the style of some great ministers, very much to exceed that of any other productions.... | |
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Our British gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humouring nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible. Our trees rise in cones, globes, and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissors upon every plant and bush. 
