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... Cultivation of the fine Arts , on the Stabi- lity of a People - On the prefent State of Medical Education 22 48 80 On Novel Writing - On Empiricifm 102 On the Stage 114 On the prefent State of Ireland 143 ESSAYS . ON THE ELOQUENCE OF ...
... Cultivation of the fine Arts , on the Stabi- lity of a People - On the prefent State of Medical Education 22 48 80 On Novel Writing - On Empiricifm 102 On the Stage 114 On the prefent State of Ireland 143 ESSAYS . ON THE ELOQUENCE OF ...
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... cultivation of any branch of literature , feems to be expreffing themselves in too loose and general a way ; instead of practically adapting their obfervations to the parti cular B cular fubject treated of . Thus we have many didactic ...
... cultivation of any branch of literature , feems to be expreffing themselves in too loose and general a way ; instead of practically adapting their obfervations to the parti cular B cular fubject treated of . Thus we have many didactic ...
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... cultivated style is requifite to gain on the hearers ; a plain , mercantile congregation will be much more pleased and , indeed , edified by a fimple , unadorned , practical harangue.- Let not the preacher difdain thus to vary his ...
... cultivated style is requifite to gain on the hearers ; a plain , mercantile congregation will be much more pleased and , indeed , edified by a fimple , unadorned , practical harangue.- Let not the preacher difdain thus to vary his ...
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William Henry Turner. ON THE EFFECTS OF LUXURY , AND MORE PARTICULARLY THE CULTIVATION OF THE FINE ARTS , ON THE STABILITY OF A PEOPLE . " Tanto magis in his profuit ignorantia vitiorum , 66 quam in illis cognitio virtutis ! " JUSTIN ...
William Henry Turner. ON THE EFFECTS OF LUXURY , AND MORE PARTICULARLY THE CULTIVATION OF THE FINE ARTS , ON THE STABILITY OF A PEOPLE . " Tanto magis in his profuit ignorantia vitiorum , 66 quam in illis cognitio virtutis ! " JUSTIN ...
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... ardour of emulation .. In all civilized countries , the polite arts have been , and ftill continue to be , more or lefs cultivated . It , therefore , becomes an an object not only of curiofity , but of utility OF LUXURY . 27.
... ardour of emulation .. In all civilized countries , the polite arts have been , and ftill continue to be , more or lefs cultivated . It , therefore , becomes an an object not only of curiofity , but of utility OF LUXURY . 27.
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