The Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres; Or, An Introduction to Languages, Poetry, Rhetorick, History, Moral Philosophy, Physicks, &c. ...W. Strahan, 1769 |
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Strana 5
... less than " one that is fhort , but fteep or difagreeable . " It is plain fuch reflections may be of great " fervice towards giving us a juft tafte of eloquence , " and may even form and improve the ftile ; but je- june and over ...
... less than " one that is fhort , but fteep or difagreeable . " It is plain fuch reflections may be of great " fervice towards giving us a juft tafte of eloquence , " and may even form and improve the ftile ; but je- june and over ...
Strana 16
... less to add the Jeaft luftre to them by the manner of relating them . I dare however , affirm , and you will permit me 10 fay it in your prefence , that among fo many illuftrious actions , none is more glorious to you , than that ...
... less to add the Jeaft luftre to them by the manner of relating them . I dare however , affirm , and you will permit me 10 fay it in your prefence , that among fo many illuftrious actions , none is more glorious to you , than that ...
Strana 75
... less in little than great things ; and to unite , with a marvel- lous fublimity , a fimplicity equally admirable ? Is any ftyle more delicate and elegant , more harmonious and fublime than Plato's ? Was it without reafon that ...
... less in little than great things ; and to unite , with a marvel- lous fublimity , a fimplicity equally admirable ? Is any ftyle more delicate and elegant , more harmonious and fublime than Plato's ? Was it without reafon that ...
Strana 100
... less conformable to their object . Intire conformity forms what we call the juftnefs of a thought ; that is , as clothes fit , when they fit well on the body , and are completely proportioned to the person who wears them ; fo thoughts ...
... less conformable to their object . Intire conformity forms what we call the juftnefs of a thought ; that is , as clothes fit , when they fit well on the body , and are completely proportioned to the person who wears them ; fo thoughts ...
Strana 108
... less visible , according to Pliny , p . 158 , 160 . Let us fay , by way of analogy , that a delicate thought has this property , viz . to be comprised in a few words ; and that its fenfe is not fo visible or con- fpicuous . " One would ...
... less visible , according to Pliny , p . 158 , 160 . Let us fay , by way of analogy , that a delicate thought has this property , viz . to be comprised in a few words ; and that its fenfe is not fo visible or con- fpicuous . " One would ...
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Strana 349 - Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O Lord, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.
Strana 335 - Judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it?
Strana 335 - Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb; 'and even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
Strana 335 - Can a woman forget her sucking child, That she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, Yet will I not forget thee.
Strana 319 - Woe unto them that join house to house, That lay field to field, till there be no place, That they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
Strana 100 - ... the picture of any object, spiritual or sensible. Now images and pictures are true no further than they resemble; so a thought is true when it represents things faithfully, and it is false when it makes them appear otherwise than they are in themselves.
Strana 369 - A Defence of Natural and Revealed Religion : being an Abridgment of the Sermons preached at the Lecture founded by the Hontte Robert Boyle, Esq...No\.