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Side 13
... now extant , even in prose , bear in some measure the characters of poetry . The scripture histories , though brief , are al- most poetical . Whether they were originally composed in metre or not , our ignorance of the HISTORY 13.
... now extant , even in prose , bear in some measure the characters of poetry . The scripture histories , though brief , are al- most poetical . Whether they were originally composed in metre or not , our ignorance of the HISTORY 13.
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... prose . " The title of " father of history " was assigned him by no less an authority than Cicero , not , we may reasonably suppose , as the first person who ever engaged in that line of writing , for several had preceded him ; but as ...
... prose . " The title of " father of history " was assigned him by no less an authority than Cicero , not , we may reasonably suppose , as the first person who ever engaged in that line of writing , for several had preceded him ; but as ...
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... perhaps the first writer in prose who shewed the powers of the English language , and laid the founda- tion of those beauties which the succeeding age displayed . It is somewhat singular that the first who composed a CLARENDON . 35.
... perhaps the first writer in prose who shewed the powers of the English language , and laid the founda- tion of those beauties which the succeeding age displayed . It is somewhat singular that the first who composed a CLARENDON . 35.
Side 48
... prose composition in the Portuguese language . The Latin title commentaries was succeeded by the French word memoirs ; and more works of this kind have been published in France than in any other country , many of them under the title ...
... prose composition in the Portuguese language . The Latin title commentaries was succeeded by the French word memoirs ; and more works of this kind have been published in France than in any other country , many of them under the title ...
Side 64
... prose composition , by the truly eminent female writers of the present day ; and whoever has read the productions of a More , a Barbauld , a Williams , and a Hamilton , will not think it impossible that Lady Mary's letters should have ...
... prose composition , by the truly eminent female writers of the present day ; and whoever has read the productions of a More , a Barbauld , a Williams , and a Hamilton , will not think it impossible that Lady Mary's letters should have ...
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