The Monthly Review, Or, Literary JournalR. Griffiths, 1799 - Books |
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... writer with those of the best writers of 1688 , will find it difficult to avoid surprise , how , with such precedents before him , he could have risen at once to a degree of excellence in style which constitutes him a model for ...
... writer with those of the best writers of 1688 , will find it difficult to avoid surprise , how , with such precedents before him , he could have risen at once to a degree of excellence in style which constitutes him a model for ...
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... writers who were equally excellent in the choice and in the management of their figures . Of those who preceded him , it ... writer who attempted to express his meaning without subsidiary words and corroborating phrases . He nearly laid ...
... writers who were equally excellent in the choice and in the management of their figures . Of those who preceded him , it ... writer who attempted to express his meaning without subsidiary words and corroborating phrases . He nearly laid ...
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... to tediousness . If a writer does not hope to amuse his readers , he at least should beware of tiring them ; and we should re- 7 flect flect that it has , perhaps , never been more Van Braam's Account of the Dutch Embassy to China . 41.
... to tediousness . If a writer does not hope to amuse his readers , he at least should beware of tiring them ; and we should re- 7 flect flect that it has , perhaps , never been more Van Braam's Account of the Dutch Embassy to China . 41.
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... writer is very properly omitted in that publication . Of the translation of these volumes , our readers may judge from the specimens which we have given . We shall only ob- serve that it bears many marks of haste , with a consequent ...
... writer is very properly omitted in that publication . Of the translation of these volumes , our readers may judge from the specimens which we have given . We shall only ob- serve that it bears many marks of haste , with a consequent ...
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... writer ; and the judicious reader must not give implicit credit either to the studied and delusive panegyric of Hume , or to the violent representations of Mrs. Macaulay . We have often wished that the candid , diligent , and impartial ...
... writer ; and the judicious reader must not give implicit credit either to the studied and delusive panegyric of Hume , or to the violent representations of Mrs. Macaulay . We have often wished that the candid , diligent , and impartial ...
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