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Pagina 8
... learned of honeft Montaigne , are interefting and amufing . In this preface is a paffage worth particular notice , not only for the juftnefs of the criticism , but because it contains a cenfure * Cowley is faid to have despised Chaucer ...
... learned of honeft Montaigne , are interefting and amufing . In this preface is a paffage worth particular notice , not only for the juftnefs of the criticism , but because it contains a cenfure * Cowley is faid to have despised Chaucer ...
Pagina 9
... learned in all sciences ; and therefore speaks properly on all sub- jects : As he knew what to say , so he also knows where to leave off ; a continence , which is practifed by few writers , and fcarcely by any of the ancients ...
... learned in all sciences ; and therefore speaks properly on all sub- jects : As he knew what to say , so he also knows where to leave off ; a continence , which is practifed by few writers , and fcarcely by any of the ancients ...
Pagina 38
... learned for the ladies . The fol- lowing twelve lines contain three allusions , delicate indeed , but fome may deem them to be too far - fetched , too much crouded , and not obvious to the Lady to whom they were addreffed , on her ...
... learned for the ladies . The fol- lowing twelve lines contain three allusions , delicate indeed , but fome may deem them to be too far - fetched , too much crouded , and not obvious to the Lady to whom they were addreffed , on her ...
Pagina 86
... learned deduction of paffages , from all the best writers of that school ; the fum of which quotations , in the nervous language of that critic , appears to be this ; " That the Stoics , in their character of their virtuous man ...
... learned deduction of paffages , from all the best writers of that school ; the fum of which quotations , in the nervous language of that critic , appears to be this ; " That the Stoics , in their character of their virtuous man ...
Pagina 99
... learned Commentary on King's Origin of Evil , first published in Latin , 1701 , a work of penetration and close reasoning ; which , it is remarkable , Bayle had never read , but only fome ex- tracts from it , when he firft wrote his fa ...
... learned Commentary on King's Origin of Evil , first published in Latin , 1701 , a work of penetration and close reasoning ; which , it is remarkable , Bayle had never read , but only fome ex- tracts from it , when he firft wrote his fa ...
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