The Rambler: In Four Volumes, Volume 4W. Strahan [and several others], 1784 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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Pagina 139 - ... can confer no valuable or permanent reward; of beings who ignorantly judge of what they do not understand, or...
Pagina 220 - I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence.
Pagina 138 - ... by voluntary aggravations. We may charge to design the effects of accident; we may think the blow violent only...