 It is with great propriety that subtlety, which in its original import means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction. Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatness; for...  Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal - Page 1edited by - 1780Full view - About this book
 | William Russell - 1856 - 240 pages
...and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and descriptions not descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that subtlety, which, in...is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction. Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 pages
...ancTih deserTptrons not descending to minuteness. It is with grBOlT'pTOpriety that subtlety, whicK in its original import means exility of particles,...is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction. Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have_ little hope oTgreatncss; fgt... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 912 pages
...and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. not disdain to treat with respect and thoughtfulness distinction. Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness; for... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pages
...and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that subtlety, which in...is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction. Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatness ; for... | |
 | 1878 - 446 pages
...and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that subtlety, which in...is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction. Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatness; for... | |
 | John Adam Weisse - 1878 - 748 pages
...and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that subtlety, which in...is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction. Those writers, who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness;... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pages
...by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that 75 subtlety,* which in its original import means exility...is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction. Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatness ; for... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 pages
...by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that 75 subtlety,* which in its original import means exility...is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction. Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatness ; for... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 286 pages
...and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that subtlety, which in...is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction. Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness ;... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 484 pages
...and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. It is With great propriety that subtlety, which in...is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction. Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness; for... | |
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