| James Robert Boyd - 1860 - 416 σελίδες
...not, perhaps, any real beauty or deformity more in one piece of matter than another. Are these designs which any man, who is born a Briton, in any circumstances,...any situation, ought to be ashamed or afraid to avow ? A great stone that I found, after a long search, by the sea-shore, answered the purpose of an anchor.... | |
| Jacob Lowres - 1862 - 192 σελίδες
...was engaged formerly in that business, bat I never shall be again concerned in it. Are these designs which any man who is born a Briton, in any circumstances,...situation, ought to be ashamed or afraid to avow? It is true what he says, but it is not applicable to the point. This kind of wit was very much in vogue... | |
| John Hugh Hawley - 1868 - 298 σελίδες
...marriage with a political economist as very dangerous. 7. All these designs, which any man who is a born Briton, in any circumstances, in any situation, ought to be ashamed or afraid to avow. LETTER IV.— SERIES II. ON THE SYNTAX OF THE ARTICLE AND THE PERSONAL PRONOUN. My dear Boy, I will... | |
| English syntax - 1873 - 104 σελίδες
...perhaps any real beauty or deformity more in one piece of matter than in another. 2(i. Are these designs which any man, who is born a Briton, in any circumstances,...any situation, ought to be ashamed or afraid to avow ? 27. The Saxon government, laws, manners, and language, were of consequence introduced into Britain.... | |
| James Robert Boyd - 1874 - 420 σελίδες
...not, perhaps, any real beauty or deformity more in one piece of matter than another. Are these designs which any man, who is born a Briton, in any circumstances,...any situation, ought to be ashamed or afraid to avow ? A great stone that I found, after a long search, by the sea-shore, answered the purpose of an anchor.... | |
| William Minto - 1881 - 634 σελίδες
...Robert Walpole, is an extreme example : — • " Let me now appeal to you, sir. Are these designs which any man, who is born a Briton, in any circumstances,...any situation, ought to be ashamed or afraid to avow ? You cannot think it. You will not say it. That never can bo the case, until we cease to think like... | |
| William Minto - 1881 - 596 σελίδες
...Sir Robert Walpole, is an extreme example : — " Let me now appeal to you, sir. Are these designs which any man, who is born a Briton, in any circumstances,...any situation, ought to be ashamed or afraid to avow ? You cannot think it. You will not say it. That never can be the case, until we cease to think like... | |
| James Boswell - 1884 - 534 σελίδες
...sentiments of Dr. Johnson ; and it may be asked, in the language of Bolingbroke, " Are these sentiments which any man, who is born a Briton, in any circumstances,...situation, ought to be ashamed, or afraid to avow ?" Johnson has done ample justice to Milton's poetry : the criticism on Paradise Lost is a sublime... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1884 - 346 σελίδες
...successfully carried on, and of late so unaccountably neglected; to say no worse.—Ibid. Are these designs, which any man, who is born a Briton, in any circumstances,...any situation, ought to be ashamed or afraid to avow ? —Ibid. We have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images which we have once... | |
| Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1884 - 538 σελίδες
...sentiments of Dr. Johnson; and it may be asked, in the language of Bolingbroke, " Are these sentiments which any man, who is born a Briton, in any circumstances,...situation, ought to be ashamed, or afraid to avow ?" Johnson has done ample justice to Milton's poetry : the criticism on Paradise Lost is a sublime... | |
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