Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Band 2Thomas Tegg and others, 1824 |
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... not to be taught by ge- neral rules , but by special precedents ; and in examining whether Addison has been with justice accused of a solecism in this passage , The poor inhabitant Starves in the midst of nature's bounty 18 THE PLAN OF.
... not to be taught by ge- neral rules , but by special precedents ; and in examining whether Addison has been with justice accused of a solecism in this passage , The poor inhabitant Starves in the midst of nature's bounty 18 THE PLAN OF.
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... passage . She loaths the watʼry glass wherein she gaz'd , And shuns it still , although for thirst she dye . When the construction of a word is explained , it is necessary to pursue it through its train of phraseology , through those ...
... passage . She loaths the watʼry glass wherein she gaz'd , And shuns it still , although for thirst she dye . When the construction of a word is explained , it is necessary to pursue it through its train of phraseology , through those ...
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... passages I have yet spared , which may relieve the labour of verbal searches , and in- tersperse with verdure and flowers the dusty deserts of barren philology . The examples , thus mutilated , are no longer to be considered as ...
... passages I have yet spared , which may relieve the labour of verbal searches , and in- tersperse with verdure and flowers the dusty deserts of barren philology . The examples , thus mutilated , are no longer to be considered as ...
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... passages I have therefore chosen , and when it happened that any author gave a definition of a term , or such an explanation as is equivalent to a definition , I have placed his authority as a supple- ment to my own , without regard to ...
... passages I have therefore chosen , and when it happened that any author gave a definition of a term , or such an explanation as is equivalent to a definition , I have placed his authority as a supple- ment to my own , without regard to ...
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... passage clear and determinate : the word , how often soever repeated , appears with new associates and in different combinations , and every quotation contributes something to the sta- bility or enlargement of the language . When words ...
... passage clear and determinate : the word , how often soever repeated , appears with new associates and in different combinations , and every quotation contributes something to the sta- bility or enlargement of the language . When words ...
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