The Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres; Or, An Introduction to Languages, Poetry, Rhetorick, History, Moral Philosophy, Physicks, &c. ...W. Strahan, 1769 |
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... 305 The fudy of the Father's 310 SECTION V. Of the Eloquence of the facred Writings 1. Simplicity of the myfterious Writings II . Simplicity and Grandeur 313 316 317 III . The 2 III . The beauty of the Scripture does not The CONTENT S.
... 305 The fudy of the Father's 310 SECTION V. Of the Eloquence of the facred Writings 1. Simplicity of the myfterious Writings II . Simplicity and Grandeur 313 316 317 III . The 2 III . The beauty of the Scripture does not The CONTENT S.
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... fathers , folely intent upon promoting their children , hurried them to the bar , without giving them time to digest their ftudies , as though it were as easy to give them abilities as a lawyer's gown : whereas had they made them pafs ...
... fathers , folely intent upon promoting their children , hurried them to the bar , without giving them time to digest their ftudies , as though it were as easy to give them abilities as a lawyer's gown : whereas had they made them pafs ...
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... father . When it turns on a play of words , it is not fo valuable : Happy he , who did not go in pursuit of riches ! more happy he , who refused them when they went to him ! This figure may often become tedious , though it be ever fo ...
... father . When it turns on a play of words , it is not fo valuable : Happy he , who did not go in pursuit of riches ! more happy he , who refused them when they went to him ! This figure may often become tedious , though it be ever fo ...
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... Father Malebranche's Inquiry after Truth is di- " ftinguished on account of the great art with which it fets abftracted truths in their true light , joins " them together , and adds new ftrength to them " from their union . The diction ...
... Father Malebranche's Inquiry after Truth is di- " ftinguished on account of the great art with which it fets abftracted truths in their true light , joins " them together , and adds new ftrength to them " from their union . The diction ...
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... father ; that is to fay , truly a King . d Every thing was God , God himself excepted ; and the world , which God had made to fhew his potver , feemed now a temple of idols . There was about five hundred years to the coming of the ...
... father ; that is to fay , truly a King . d Every thing was God , God himself excepted ; and the world , which God had made to fhew his potver , feemed now a temple of idols . There was about five hundred years to the coming of the ...
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