| Hugh Blair - 1787 - 482 páginas
...faving time and paper, " which they acquired at the univerfity, they *c write in fo diminutive a manner, that they " can hardly read what they have written."...mean^ that they had acquired time and paper at the univerfity, but that they had acquired this habit there; and therefore his words ought to have run... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 486 páginas
...parish was, " our doctor gave us but " an indifferent sermon to day." Now among us, many clergymen act so directly contrary to this method, that from...acquired at the university, they write in so diminutive a manner, with such frequent blots and interlineations, that they are hardly able to go on without perpetual... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1807 - 406 páginas
...nature is the following inaccuracy of Dean Swift's. He is recommending to young clergymen, towrite their sermons fully and distinctly. " Many," says...paper, " which they acquired at the university, they writa in so dimin" utive a manner, that they can hardly read what they have " written." He certainly... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 554 páginas
...the parish was, " our doctor gave us but an indifferent sermon to-day." Now among us, many clergymen act so directly contrary to this method, that from...acquired at the University, they write in so diminutive a manner, with such frequent blots "and interlineations, that they are hardly able to go on without perpetual... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1808 - 178 páginas
...opposition to them. It has rot a word, says Pope, but what the author religiously thinks in it. Many act so directly contrary to this method, that, from a habit of saving time and paper, whith they acquired at the university, they write in so diminutive a manner, that they can hardly read... | |
| John Sabine - 1810 - 308 páginas
...of the where a party of the royInelegant. •where a royalists had fortified themselves. Many act so contrary to this method, that from a habit of saving...acquired at the university, they write in so diminutive a manner, that they can hardly read what alists had fortified themselves. Many act so contrary to this... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1812 - 224 páginas
...opposition to them. It has not a word, says Pope, but what the author religiously thinks in it. Many act so directly contrary to this method, that, from...acquired at the university, they write in so diminutive a manner, that tht-y can hardly read what they have written. Thus I have fairly given you my own opinion,... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 378 páginas
...the parish was, " our doctor gave us but an indifferent sermon to-day." Wow among us, many clergymen act so directly contrary to this method, that from...which they acquired at the university, they write in se diminutive a manner, with such frequent blots and interlineations, that they are hardly able to... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 páginas
...the parish was, ' Our doctor gave us but an indifferent sermon to-day.' Now among us many clergymen act so directly contrary to this method, that, from a habit of saving lime, and paper, which they acquired at the university, they write in so diminutive a manner, with... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 470 páginas
...the parish was, " our doctor gave us but an indifferent sermon to-day." Now among us, many clergymen act so directly contrary to this method, that from...acquired at the University, they write in so diminutive a manner, with such frequent blots and interlineations, that they are hardly able to go on without perpetual... | |
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