 | 1796 - Liczba stron: 690
...in pofitions not limited by exception), and in defcriptions not defcending to minutenefs. It is witk great propriety that Subtlety, which in its original import means exility of particles, it taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of diftindion. Thofe writers who lay on the watch for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - Liczba stron: 358
...and confift in pofitions not limited by exceptions, and in defcriptions not defcending to minutenefs. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in its original import means exility of particks, is taken in ks metaphorical meaning for nicety of diftinction. Thofe writers who lay on the... | |
 | 1780 - Liczba stron: 596
...and confilt in portions not limited by exceptions, and in defcriptions not defcending to minutenefs. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in...is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of diftinfiion. Thofe writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatnefs ; for... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1780 - Liczba stron: 726
...and confift in pofttions not limited by exceptions, and in defcriptions not defending to minuteneis. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in...is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of diftinftion. Thofe writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatnefs ; for... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - Liczba stron: 590
...and in defcriptions not defcending to minutenefs. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which iu its original import means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of dillinclion. Thofe writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatnefs; for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - Liczba stron: 498
...and confift in politions not limited by exceptions, and in defcriptions not defcending to minutenefs. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in...is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of diftinction. Thofe writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatnefs ; for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - Liczba stron: 494
...defcriptions not defcending to minutenefs. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in itsoriginal import means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of diftincTion. Thofe writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatnefs ; for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - Liczba stron: 478
...and confift in potitions not limited by exceptions, and in defcriptions not defcending to minutenefs. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in its original import means exility of particlefi, is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of diftin&ion. Thofe writers who lay on... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - Liczba stron: 498
...and conlift in politions not limited by exceptions, and in defcriptions not defcending to minutenefs. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in...is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of diftincYion. Thofe writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of grcatnds; for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - Liczba stron: 494
...defcending to minutenefs. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in its original im« port means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of diftinction. Thofe writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatnefs; for... | |
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Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration.... 
