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The Philosophy of Rhetoric - Page 374
by George Campbell - 1801
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The Institutes of English Grammar, Methodically Arranged: With Examples for ...

Goold Brown - English language - 1851 - 324 pages
...the present age is apt to run into, is to make children learn all things. — Goldsmith. It requires few talents to which most men are not born, or, at least, may not acquire. Nor was Philip wanting in his endeavours to corrupt Demosthenes, as he had most of the leading men...
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Analytical and Practical Grammar

Peter Bullions - 1857 - 264 pages
...at least may attain. This property has or will he sold. You suppose him younger than I. It requires few talents to which most men are not born, or at least may not acquire. He may he said to have saved the life of a citizen, and consequently entitled to the reward. The people...
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The Philosophy of Rhetoric

George Campbell - English language - 1859 - 460 pages
...as old and older cannot have a common regimen ; the one requires to be followed by the conjunction as, the other by than. If he had said " as old as...noted, that the connexion between the preposition and the noun or pronoun governed by it is so intimate that there cannot be a reference to the one without...
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The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: With Copious Notes and ..., Volume 5

Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe - 1859 - 686 pages
...and from, thence every man to form maxims to himself whereby it may bo regulated, because it requires few talents to which- most men are not born, or at least may not acquire, without any great genius or study. For nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though...
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The Philosophy of Rhetoric

George Campbell - English language - 1860 - 458 pages
...as old and older cannot have a common regimen ; the one requires to be followed by the conjunction as, the other by than. If he had said " as old as...noted, that the connexion between the preposition and the noun or pronoun governed by it is so intimate that there cannot be a reference to the one without...
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Brown's Grammar Improved: The Institutes of English Grammar, Methodically ...

Goold Brown - English language - 1860 - 354 pages
...the present age is apt to run into, is to make children learn all things. — Goldsmith. It requires few talents to which most men are not born, or, at least, may not acquire. The Greeks, fearing to be surrounded on all sides, wheeled about and halted, with the river on their...
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Elements of English Composition, Grammatical, Rhetorical, Logical, and ...

James Robert Boyd - English language - 1860 - 416 pages
...sometimes coupled as having a common regimen, when, in fact, they do not admit of it ; us, " It requires few talents to which most men are not born, or, at least, may not acquire." The second clause does not properly follow to which: "to which most men may not acquire." To make good...
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The Institutes of English Grammar ...: And a Key to the Oral Exercises, to ...

Goold Brown - English language - 1862 - 326 pages
...the present age is apt to run into, is to make children learn all things.—Goldsmith. It requires few talents to which most men are not born, or, at least, may not acquire. Nor was Philip wanting in his endeavours to corrupt Demosthenes, as he had most of the leading men...
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The Institutes of English Grammar Methodically Arranged: With Forms of ...

Goold Brown - English language - 1865 - 350 pages
...the present age is apt to run into, is to make children learn all things. — Goldsmith. It requires few talents to which most men are not born, or, at least, may not acquire. The Greeks, fearing to be surrounded on all sides, wheeled about and halted, with the river on their...
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Analytical and Practical Grammar: A Practical Grammar of the English ...

Peter Bullions - English language - 1870 - 360 pages
...property most men have, or at least may attain. — This property has or will be sold. — It requires few talents to which most men are not born, or at least may not acquire. — The people of this country possess a healthy climate and soil. — I have purchased a house and...
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