Q. Horatii Flacci Epistolae Ad Pisones, Et Augustum, Tom 2W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1776 |
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... judgment as little indulges in the schools of Art , as found philofophy , in those of Nature . Accordingly these enraptured declaim- ers , though they travelled down to the politer ages , could not fubfift in them . The fine ridicule of ...
... judgment as little indulges in the schools of Art , as found philofophy , in those of Nature . Accordingly these enraptured declaim- ers , though they travelled down to the politer ages , could not fubfift in them . The fine ridicule of ...
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... judgment on the inventions of their betters . But to JUDGE , as well as to INVENT , is thought a violent encroachment in the republic of Letters ; not unlike the ambition of the Roman emperors , who would be confuls , and cenfors too ...
... judgment on the inventions of their betters . But to JUDGE , as well as to INVENT , is thought a violent encroachment in the republic of Letters ; not unlike the ambition of the Roman emperors , who would be confuls , and cenfors too ...
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... judgments paffed upon the most celebrated of the old Roman poets , by the generality of the modern critics ; where , to win upon their pre- judices ftill further by his generofity and good faith , he Vincere Caecilius gravitate ...
... judgments paffed upon the most celebrated of the old Roman poets , by the generality of the modern critics ; where , to win upon their pre- judices ftill further by his generofity and good faith , he Vincere Caecilius gravitate ...
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... judgments of the generality , and , ftanding forth with advantage , as from a fhaded and dark ground , would naturally ... judgment . But , unluckily , he had cut him- felf off from the benefit of this plea , by avowedly grounding his ...
... judgments of the generality , and , ftanding forth with advantage , as from a fhaded and dark ground , would naturally ... judgment . But , unluckily , he had cut him- felf off from the benefit of this plea , by avowedly grounding his ...
Strona 12
... judgment ; or , 2. [ to line 86 ] in creat- ing a falfe fhame , and reluctancy in us to be directed by the judgments of others , though feen to be more equitable , whenever they are found in oppofition to our own rooted and preconceived ...
... judgment ; or , 2. [ to line 86 ] in creat- ing a falfe fhame , and reluctancy in us to be directed by the judgments of others , though feen to be more equitable , whenever they are found in oppofition to our own rooted and preconceived ...
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