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... style of language lasts from age to age : but the style of conversation varies with every change of fashions , manners , and refinements , and soon loses that instantaneous power of stimulating in which the vivacity of talk and the ...
... style of language lasts from age to age : but the style of conversation varies with every change of fashions , manners , and refinements , and soon loses that instantaneous power of stimulating in which the vivacity of talk and the ...
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... style of history it were now perhaps romantic to expect , and unjust to demand . We may , indeed , amuse ourselves with dreams of purity and correctness , of the union of strength and elegance , and of that sober but graceful modesty of ...
... style of history it were now perhaps romantic to expect , and unjust to demand . We may , indeed , amuse ourselves with dreams of purity and correctness , of the union of strength and elegance , and of that sober but graceful modesty of ...
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... style and sentiment , have been adopted by them , which in some instances approach and in others sur- pass the wildness and extravagance of the Germans them- selves in their dark and traditional fables ; and in those ter- rible ...
... style and sentiment , have been adopted by them , which in some instances approach and in others sur- pass the wildness and extravagance of the Germans them- selves in their dark and traditional fables ; and in those ter- rible ...
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Timber Essay on the Strength of | 18 |
Tobin Mr Memoirs | 30 |
Translation New of Aristotles | 177 |
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