| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 488 pages
...It contains nothing to provoke them by the least scurrility upon their persons or their functions. It celebrates the Church of England, as the most perfect of all others, in discipline and doctrine; it advances no opinion they reject, nor condemns any they receive. If the... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 498 pages
...It contains nothing to provoke them by the least scurrility upon their persons or their functions. It celebrates the Church of England, as the most perfect of all others, in discipline and doctrine; it advances no opinion they reject, nor condemns any they receive. If the... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 346 pages
...of completing bis hundredth year. N. the least scurrility upon their persons or their fane-' tions. It celebrates the Church of England, as the most perfect of all others, in discipline and doctrine; it advances no opinion they reject, nor condemns any they receive. If the... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 350 pages
...things compared.." The vice of covetousness is what enters deepest into the soul of any other." " He celebrates the church of England as the most perfect of all others." Both these modes of expression are faulty r we should not sajy " The best of any man," or, " The best... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1809 - 330 pages
...things compared. " The vice of covetousness is what enters deepest into the soul of any other." " He celebrates the church of England as the most perfect of all others." Both these modes of expression are faulty : we should not say, " The best of any man," or, " The best... | |
| Jonathan Swift, William Wotton - English literature - 1812 - 250 pages
...It contains nothing to provoke them by the least scurrility upon their persons or their functions. It celebrates the Church of England, as the most perfect of all others, in discipline and doctrine ; it advances no opinion they reject, nor condemns any they receive. If... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - English literature - 1814 - 442 pages
...It contains nothing to provoke them, by the least scurrility upon their persons or their functions. It celebrates the church of England, as the most perfect of all others, in discipline and doctrine ; it advances no opinion they reject, nor condemns any they receive. If... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 446 pages
...It contains nothing to provoke them, by the least scurrility upon their persons or their functions. It celebrates the church of England, as the most perfect of all others, in discipline and doctrine ; it advances no opinion they reject, nor condemns any they receive. If... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1826 - 320 pages
...syntax, implies a thing different from itself ; as it " celehrates the Church of England as the moat perfect of all others."* Properly, either — " as...— or, ,• as the most perfect of all churches." 2. On this principle, Milton falls into an impropriety in these words : — • ~ • - - - - Adam,... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1834 - 366 pages
...things compared. " The vice of covetousness is what enters deepest into the soul of any other." " He celebrates the church of England as the most perfect of all others." Both these modes of expression are faulty : we should not say, " The best of any man," or, " The best... | |
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