Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical Pieces, with New Translations, and an Introduction, Volume 1J. Miller, 1809 |
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Page xlvii
... other pieces ; and in personal abuse it perhaps surpasses them - abuse too , which may be thought less excuseable , as , I believe , it was never certainly known that Bramhal was the author , though INTRODUCTION . xlvii.
... other pieces ; and in personal abuse it perhaps surpasses them - abuse too , which may be thought less excuseable , as , I believe , it was never certainly known that Bramhal was the author , though INTRODUCTION . xlvii.
Page xlviii
... never certainly known that Bramhal was the author , though he is uniformly assailed by name . But it should be observed , that the piece itself , to which the one we are speaking of is an answer , was sufficiently offensive to justify ...
... never certainly known that Bramhal was the author , though he is uniformly assailed by name . But it should be observed , that the piece itself , to which the one we are speaking of is an answer , was sufficiently offensive to justify ...
Page lix
... never fails to present an interesting and instructive spectacle . Milton was not of a temper to stand an idle spectator of such scenes ; and he took up his pen with the united zeal of an apostle of religion and of liberty , prepared ...
... never fails to present an interesting and instructive spectacle . Milton was not of a temper to stand an idle spectator of such scenes ; and he took up his pen with the united zeal of an apostle of religion and of liberty , prepared ...
Page lxiii
... never affected and never scrupulously shunned his peculiar phrase- ology , that his Latin often very naturally falls . into a style much resembling his own English ; nor , in some instances , could I well prevent this , without the risk ...
... never affected and never scrupulously shunned his peculiar phrase- ology , that his Latin often very naturally falls . into a style much resembling his own English ; nor , in some instances , could I well prevent this , without the risk ...
Page lxiv
... never that pert , hitting effect , which distinguishes the French style . These frenchified sentences may appear lively to the eye and the ear , but they will often , be found wanting in that flowing body of thought , which can alone ...
... never that pert , hitting effect , which distinguishes the French style . These frenchified sentences may appear lively to the eye and the ear , but they will often , be found wanting in that flowing body of thought , which can alone ...
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