Parriana: Miscellaneous materials bearing on Parr's controversiesEdmund Henry Barker Henry Colburn, 1829 |
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Page ii
... matters of fact faithfully , it would be a very useful and acceptable work ; for examples of heroick picty and virtue , are more pleasant and prevalent with mankind than just precepts and commands . " A Letter from MOSES PITT to the ...
... matters of fact faithfully , it would be a very useful and acceptable work ; for examples of heroick picty and virtue , are more pleasant and prevalent with mankind than just precepts and commands . " A Letter from MOSES PITT to the ...
Page vii
... matter of Barrow to the received notions and approved forms of language in a more refined age . It doubt- less required great vigilance and great taste to alter the phraseology of such a writer without impairing his " ( the ) " sense ...
... matter of Barrow to the received notions and approved forms of language in a more refined age . It doubt- less required great vigilance and great taste to alter the phraseology of such a writer without impairing his " ( the ) " sense ...
Page ix
... matter a little fire kindleth . ' PARR had taken several opportunities of speaking handsomely of Dr. HURD in his notes upon Rapin , written some six years before . They were not then published , it is true , but they are now , and stand ...
... matter a little fire kindleth . ' PARR had taken several opportunities of speaking handsomely of Dr. HURD in his notes upon Rapin , written some six years before . They were not then published , it is true , but they are now , and stand ...
Page x
... matters , about which alone he owed respect to his Diocesan ; in the free republic of letters there is NO DIOCESAN , to whom any respect is owed ; the contrary maxim is MOST PERNICIOUS , and should be forthwith expelled from the ...
... matters , about which alone he owed respect to his Diocesan ; in the free republic of letters there is NO DIOCESAN , to whom any respect is owed ; the contrary maxim is MOST PERNICIOUS , and should be forthwith expelled from the ...
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... matter . Dr. PARR never throughout life used a common - place book ; his great memory readily supplied him with pertinent quo- tations . His LORDSHIP was himself deficient alike in taste , and in " judgment , ” if he could peruse the ...
... matter . Dr. PARR never throughout life used a common - place book ; his great memory readily supplied him with pertinent quo- tations . His LORDSHIP was himself deficient alike in taste , and in " judgment , ” if he could peruse the ...
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