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Pagina xxi
... endeavour to avoid all harsiness and severity of diction , he is therefore sometimes verbose in his transitions and connections , and sometimes descends too much to the language of conversation ; yet if his language had been lefs ...
... endeavour to avoid all harsiness and severity of diction , he is therefore sometimes verbose in his transitions and connections , and sometimes descends too much to the language of conversation ; yet if his language had been lefs ...
Pagina 8
... endeavour at the fame end with himself , the fa- vour of a commander . He will however in his way of talk excuse generals , for not difpofing according to men's defert , or inquiring into it ; for , says he , that great man who has a ...
... endeavour at the fame end with himself , the fa- vour of a commander . He will however in his way of talk excuse generals , for not difpofing according to men's defert , or inquiring into it ; for , says he , that great man who has a ...
Pagina 18
... endeavour at a stile and air fuitable to their understanding . When I say this , I must be under- ftood to mean , that I shall not lower but exalt the subjects I treat upon . Difcourse for their entertainment , is not to be debafed but ...
... endeavour at a stile and air fuitable to their understanding . When I say this , I must be under- ftood to mean , that I shall not lower but exalt the subjects I treat upon . Difcourse for their entertainment , is not to be debafed but ...
Pagina 38
... endeavour to enliven morality with wit , and to temper wit with morality , that my readers may , if poffible , both ways find their account in the fpeculation of the day . And to the end that their virtue and difcre- tion may not be ...
... endeavour to enliven morality with wit , and to temper wit with morality , that my readers may , if poffible , both ways find their account in the fpeculation of the day . And to the end that their virtue and difcre- tion may not be ...
Pagina 40
... increase the number of these by publishing this daily paper , which I shall always endeavour to make an innocent if not an improving en- tertainment , tertainment , and by that means at leaft divert the 40 THE SPЕСТАТOR .
... increase the number of these by publishing this daily paper , which I shall always endeavour to make an innocent if not an improving en- tertainment , tertainment , and by that means at leaft divert the 40 THE SPЕСТАТOR .
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