The Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres; Or, An Introduction to Languages, Poetry, Rhetorick, History, Moral Philosophy, Physicks, &c. ...W. Strahan, 1769 - Education |
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... lively fentiments of be- nevolence and efteem for the au- thors , that we cannot avoid loving them , though we have not the leaf knowledge of their perfons . b But you , Cæfar , whom we hay quum reipublicæ fecerit , id effe falvum velis ...
... lively fentiments of be- nevolence and efteem for the au- thors , that we cannot avoid loving them , though we have not the leaf knowledge of their perfons . b But you , Cæfar , whom we hay quum reipublicæ fecerit , id effe falvum velis ...
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... lively figures are common , and , as it were , na- tural to him . " O admirable Mother , Wife , and Queen ! and worthy of better fortune , were the fortunes of this " world of any value ! but you must submit to your fate . 66 66 She faw ...
... lively figures are common , and , as it were , na- tural to him . " O admirable Mother , Wife , and Queen ! and worthy of better fortune , were the fortunes of this " world of any value ! but you must submit to your fate . 66 66 She faw ...
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... lively de- fcriptions . " M. Dodart , fays he , in the elogium of that il- luftrious member of the royal academy , was natu- " rally grave and ferious ; and the Chriftian atten- ❝tion with which he always watched over himself , " was ...
... lively de- fcriptions . " M. Dodart , fays he , in the elogium of that il- luftrious member of the royal academy , was natu- " rally grave and ferious ; and the Chriftian atten- ❝tion with which he always watched over himself , " was ...
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... lively , and laboured for an ungrateful " poffeffor , in fpite of himself ; and adorned reafon " whilft fhe concealed herself from it . " Botany is not an idle fedentary science , that may " be attained in the calm repofe of a ftudy ...
... lively , and laboured for an ungrateful " poffeffor , in fpite of himself ; and adorned reafon " whilft fhe concealed herself from it . " Botany is not an idle fedentary science , that may " be attained in the calm repofe of a ftudy ...
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... lively turn in a fententious way , and feems inftructed to feize the conclufion of the periods , as a poft which belongs to itself , exclufively of all others . What exalts the understanding should likewife exalt the foul . The fame ...
... lively turn in a fententious way , and feems inftructed to feize the conclufion of the periods , as a poft which belongs to itself , exclufively of all others . What exalts the understanding should likewife exalt the foul . The fame ...
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