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... tion , be deemed of no confequence . Those may serve to illuftrate a general obfervation , which are fcarcely worth notice as fubjects either of censure or of praife . Nor is there any thing in this Book , which , in his opinion , will ...
... tion , be deemed of no confequence . Those may serve to illuftrate a general obfervation , which are fcarcely worth notice as fubjects either of censure or of praife . Nor is there any thing in this Book , which , in his opinion , will ...
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... tion with natural philofophy , including geogra- phy and aftronomy , to thofe of the architect , the navigator , the dialist , and many others . Of what confequence anatomy is to furgery , and that part of phyfiology which teaches the ...
... tion with natural philofophy , including geogra- phy and aftronomy , to thofe of the architect , the navigator , the dialist , and many others . Of what confequence anatomy is to furgery , and that part of phyfiology which teaches the ...
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... tion of the public . WHEN we confider the manner in which the rhetorical art hath arifen , and been treated in the schools , we must be fenfible , that in this , as in the imitative arts , the firft handle has been given to criticism by ...
... tion of the public . WHEN we confider the manner in which the rhetorical art hath arifen , and been treated in the schools , we must be fenfible , that in this , as in the imitative arts , the firft handle has been given to criticism by ...
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... tion . In general it may be afferted , that each pre- ceding fpecies , in the order above exhibited , is preparatory to the fubfequent ; that each fub- fequent fpecies is founded on the preceding ; and that thus they afcend in a regular ...
... tion . In general it may be afferted , that each pre- ceding fpecies , in the order above exhibited , is preparatory to the fubfequent ; that each fub- fequent fpecies is founded on the preceding ; and that thus they afcend in a regular ...
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... tion to affairs of a ferious and important nature , CHA P. II . Of wit , humour , and ridicule . THIS article , concerning eloquence in its largest acceptation , I cannot properly dif mifs without making fome obfervations on ano- ther ...
... tion to affairs of a ferious and important nature , CHA P. II . Of wit , humour , and ridicule . THIS article , concerning eloquence in its largest acceptation , I cannot properly dif mifs without making fome obfervations on ano- ther ...
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