The British Essayists: Knox's essaysJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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Pàgina vi
... Mind , cultivated with Polite and Solid Literature . 143. On Parental Indulgence [ In a Letter . ] ...... 114 119 124 144. On the Poems attributed to Rowley ....... 145. On the Moral Tendency of the Writings of Sterne ... 129 146. On ...
... Mind , cultivated with Polite and Solid Literature . 143. On Parental Indulgence [ In a Letter . ] ...... 114 119 124 144. On the Poems attributed to Rowley ....... 145. On the Moral Tendency of the Writings of Sterne ... 129 146. On ...
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... mind open to conviction , I have ventured to advance an opinion against the poetical merit of Addison ; regardless how it may alarm those who submit their judgments to the direction of others , and who pay an implicit obedience to ...
... mind open to conviction , I have ventured to advance an opinion against the poetical merit of Addison ; regardless how it may alarm those who submit their judgments to the direction of others , and who pay an implicit obedience to ...
Pàgina 15
... minds often much greater . It is in the power of these hirelings , who seldom possess much principle , to involve all the country in animosity . The landed gentry usually possess a share of pride fully proportionate to their estate and ...
... minds often much greater . It is in the power of these hirelings , who seldom possess much principle , to involve all the country in animosity . The landed gentry usually possess a share of pride fully proportionate to their estate and ...
Pàgina 18
... mind , becoming , in the middle and advanced periods of life , melancholy instances of the miserable effects resulting from an ungoverned temper . A certain lady , whom I shall distinguish by the name of Hispulla , was celebrated from ...
... mind , becoming , in the middle and advanced periods of life , melancholy instances of the miserable effects resulting from an ungoverned temper . A certain lady , whom I shall distinguish by the name of Hispulla , was celebrated from ...
Pàgina 19
... mind ; but as we naturally bestow our first care on the quality which we most value , she could never give her attention either to books or to oral instruction , and , at the age of fifteen or sixteen , could scarcely write her name ...
... mind ; but as we naturally bestow our first care on the quality which we most value , she could never give her attention either to books or to oral instruction , and , at the age of fifteen or sixteen , could scarcely write her name ...
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