 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...  The Monthly Review - Página 11780Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 236 páginas
...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 ;... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895
...exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that subtilty, 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 ;... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895
...exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that subtilty, 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 ;... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 219 páginas
...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... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 219 páginas
...descriptions not descending to minuteness. J It is with great propriety that subtlety, which in it§ 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... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1903
...and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that subtlety, which in...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905
...consist impositions not limited by^exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. ) It is with great propriety that subtlety ', which...is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction. Thosejyriters— who- lay on the watch, for -novelty -xould have litflenope of greatness... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 379 páginas
...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... | |
 | Howard Anderson - 1999 - 419 páginas
...and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that subtlety, which in its original import means exility [ie, thinness, meagreness] of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1821
...and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that subtilty, whichin 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 ;... | |
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