 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...  Poems - Page xiiiby Charles James - 1817Full view - About this book
 | Books - 1780 - 596 pages
...limited by exceptions, and in defcriptions not defcending to minutenefs. 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 diftinfiion. Thofe writers who lay on the watch for novelty could... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1780 - 726 pages
...limited by exceptions, and in defcriptions not defending to minuteneis. 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 diftinftion. Thofe writers who lay on the watch for novelty could... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 498 pages
...limited by exceptions, and in defcriptions not defcending to minutenefs. 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 diftinction. Thofe writers who lay on the watch for novelty could... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...limited by exceptions, and in defcriptions not defcending to minutenefs. 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 diftincYion. Thofe writers who lay on the watch for novelty could... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...limited by exceptions, and in defcriptions not dcfcending to minutenefs. 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 diftinction. Thofe writers who lie on the watch for novelty could... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...limited by exceptions, and in defcriptions not defcending to minutenefs. 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 diftinction. Thofe writers who lay on the watch for novelty could... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. 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 la"y on the watch for novelty could... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...limited by exceptions, and in defcriptions not defcending to minuteneis. 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 diftinction. Thofe writers who lay on the watch for novelty could... | |
 | English poetry - 1801 - 860 pages
...exceptions, and in defcriptions not defcending to minutenefs. It is with great propriety that fubtilty (which in its original import means exility of particles) is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of diftinftion. Thofe writers who lay on the watch for novelty could... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. 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 invelty could... | |
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