The Port Folio, Volume 2Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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Page 2
... appear of how much consequence it is to readers and speakers not to be mistaken in it ; the necessity of distinguishing the emphatical words from the rest , has made writers on this subject extremely solicitous to give such rules for ...
... appear of how much consequence it is to readers and speakers not to be mistaken in it ; the necessity of distinguishing the emphatical words from the rest , has made writers on this subject extremely solicitous to give such rules for ...
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... appears to have sug- gested a good criterion . " The principal circumstance , " says he , " that distinguishes em- phatical words from others , seems to be a meaning which points out , or distinguishes something as distinct or opposite ...
... appears to have sug- gested a good criterion . " The principal circumstance , " says he , " that distinguishes em- phatical words from others , seems to be a meaning which points out , or distinguishes something as distinct or opposite ...
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... appear old . Being informed of the character of these historians , we passed on , and saw seated beneath a group of trees the seven sages , so celebrated in Greece . Pride is the daughter of Ignorance , Modesty the offspring of Wisdom ...
... appear old . Being informed of the character of these historians , we passed on , and saw seated beneath a group of trees the seven sages , so celebrated in Greece . Pride is the daughter of Ignorance , Modesty the offspring of Wisdom ...
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... appears in some degree that of a lover , but his views extended far beyond the limits of personal at- tachment , and Interest was the mistress he adored . I. THE SCRIBBLER , NO . V.- FOR THE PORT FOLIO . YOUR Countrymen , said a ...
... appears in some degree that of a lover , but his views extended far beyond the limits of personal at- tachment , and Interest was the mistress he adored . I. THE SCRIBBLER , NO . V.- FOR THE PORT FOLIO . YOUR Countrymen , said a ...
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... appear to be a tractable and obedient people , easily managed by proper treatment , but excessively ignorant and slothful . From their employment under the former government in the cultivation of estates in the country , and their ...
... appear to be a tractable and obedient people , easily managed by proper treatment , but excessively ignorant and slothful . From their employment under the former government in the cultivation of estates in the country , and their ...
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