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... question so nice and curious , there should , with- out any previous communication , be so remarkable a coincidence of sentiments in every thing wherein their subjects coincide . A man must have an uncommon confidence vi PREFACE .
... question so nice and curious , there should , with- out any previous communication , be so remarkable a coincidence of sentiments in every thing wherein their subjects coincide . A man must have an uncommon confidence vi PREFACE .
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... thing should be alike perspicuous to every reader , or , that all the parts should be equally elevated . Varie- ty in this respect , as well as in others , is perhaps , on the whole , more pleasing and more instructive , than too ...
... thing should be alike perspicuous to every reader , or , that all the parts should be equally elevated . Varie- ty in this respect , as well as in others , is perhaps , on the whole , more pleasing and more instructive , than too ...
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... thing be farther from his thoughts than to pretend to an exemption from such positive faults in expression , as , on ... things , carefully to beware of implicit attachment and servile imitation , even when they seem to be claimed by the ...
... thing be farther from his thoughts than to pretend to an exemption from such positive faults in expression , as , on ... things , carefully to beware of implicit attachment and servile imitation , even when they seem to be claimed by the ...
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... thing further . But their utility reaches a very little way , compared with that which results from the knowledge of the foundations of the art , and of what has been , not un- fitly , styled arithmetic universal . It may be justly said ...
... thing further . But their utility reaches a very little way , compared with that which results from the knowledge of the foundations of the art , and of what has been , not un- fitly , styled arithmetic universal . It may be justly said ...
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... thing at least conceivable . In like manner , the utmost pleasure of which the ima- gination is susceptible by a poetical narrative or exhi- bition , is a thing , in my judgment , not inconceivable . We Britons , for example , do , by ...
... thing at least conceivable . In like manner , the utmost pleasure of which the ima- gination is susceptible by a poetical narrative or exhi- bition , is a thing , in my judgment , not inconceivable . We Britons , for example , do , by ...
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