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For , if you would inform , a positive and dogmatical manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention . If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others , and yet at the ...
For , if you would inform , a positive and dogmatical manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention . If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others , and yet at the ...
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It was their highest ambition to attain a certain lofty , measured , declamatory manner - an artificial elevation of style , from which it is impossible to rise or descend without abruptness and violence , and which allows just as much ...
It was their highest ambition to attain a certain lofty , measured , declamatory manner - an artificial elevation of style , from which it is impossible to rise or descend without abruptness and violence , and which allows just as much ...
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The first glow of admiration , which the splendid errors of his manner excited in the public , is now over , and we can calmly estimate his merits and defects . He must be allowed to have possessed an active and fertile fancy .
The first glow of admiration , which the splendid errors of his manner excited in the public , is now over , and we can calmly estimate his merits and defects . He must be allowed to have possessed an active and fertile fancy .
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| Title | Colonial and Federalist American Writing Odyssey surveys of American writing |
| Authors | George F. Horner, Robert A. Bain |
| Editors | George F. Horner, Robert A. Bain |
| Publisher | Odyssey Press, 1966 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 946 pages |
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