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Essays on rhetoric: abridged chiefly from dr. Blair's lectures on that science - Page 164
by Hugh Blair - 1784 - 384 pages
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Letters written by Sir William Temple ... containing an account of the most ...

William Temple - 1731 - 506 pages
...Knowledge, he fupplies by Sufficiency. When he has looked about him as far as he can, he concludes there is no more to be feen; when he is at the End...at the Bottom of the Ocean ; when he has (hot his bell, he is fure, none ever did nor ever can fhcot better or beyond it. His own Reafon is the certain...
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The Works of Sir William Temple Bart,: Complete in Four Volumes ..., Volume 3

William Temple - 1757 - 564 pages
...knowledge, he fupplies by fufficiency. When he has looked about him as far as he can, he concludes there is no more to be feen ; when he is at the end...line, he is at the bottom of the Ocean ; when he has fhot his beft, he is fure, none ever did nor ever can moot better or beyond it. His own reafon is the...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 1

Hugh Blair - 1787 - 482 pages
...ledge, he fupplies by fufficiency. When " he has looked about him, as far as he can, ,« he concludes, there is no more to be feen ; " when he is at the...his ." beft, he is fure none ever did, or ever can, tc fhoot better, or beyond it. His own reafon ." he holds to be the certain meafure of truth ; " and...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 1

Hugh Blair - 1793 - 518 pages
...cy. When he has looked about him, as far as *' he can, he concludes, there is no more to be " ieen ; when he is at the end of his line, he is at " the bottom of the ocean ; when he has fhot hii " belt, he is fure none ever did, or ever can, flioot " better, or beyond it. His own reafon...
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A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and ...

John Walker - 1801 - 424 pages
...sufficiency. When he has looked about him, *' as far as he can, he concludes there is no " more to be seen; when he is at the end of his " line, he is at the bottom of the ocean ; when " he has shot his best, he is sure none ever did, " or ever can, shoot better, or beyond it. His " own reason...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 1

Hugh Blair - 1802 - 416 pages
...knowledge, he fupplies by fufficiency. When he has looked " about him, as far as he can, he concludes, there is no more " to be feen ; when he is at the...line, he is at the " bottom of the ocean ; when he has fhot his beft, he is furs " none ever did, or ever can, fhoot better, or beyond it. His " own reafon...
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An Abridgement of Lectures on Rhetoric

Hugh Blair - 1802 - 328 pages
...cy. When he has looked about him as far, as " he can, he concludes there is no more to be fcen ; •' when he is at the end of his line, he is at the bottom " of the ocean ; when he has fhot his beft, he is fure " none ever did, or ever can fhoot better, or beyond it. " His own rcafou...
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English Grammar, Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners: With an ...

Lindley Murray - 1805 - 348 pages
...fufficiency. When he has looked 'about him as far as he can, he concludes there is no more to befeen ; when he is at the end of his line, he is at the bottom of the ocean ; when he has fhot his beft, he is fure none ever did, or ever can, fhoot better, or beyond it. His own reafon he...
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An Abridgment of Lectures on Rhetorick

Hugh Blair - 1805 - 280 pages
...When he has looked about him as far as he can, " he concludes there is no more to be feen ; when he u is at the end of his line, he is at the bottom of the " ocean ; when he has fhot his beft, he is fure none " ever did, or even can (hoot better, or beyond it. " His own reafon...
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English Grammar: Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners : with an ...

Lindley Murray - 1805 - 350 pages
...he has looked about him as far as he can, he concludes there is no more to be seen ; when he is-at the end of his line, he is at the bottom of the ocean ; when he has shot his best, he is sure none ever did, or ever can, shoot better, or beyond it. His own reason- he....
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