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English Grammar, Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners: With an ... - Page 311
by Lindley Murray - 1805 - 328 pages
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Letters written by Sir William Temple ... containing an account of the most ...

William Temple - 1731 - 506 pages
...Sufficiency. When he has looked about him as far as he can, he concludes there is no more to be feen; when he is at the End of his Line, he is at the Bottom of the Ocean ; when he has (hot his bell, he is fure, none ever did nor ever can fhcot better or beyond it. His own Reafon is...
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The Works of Sir William Temple Bart,: Complete in Four Volumes ..., Volume 3

William Temple - 1757 - 564 pages
...fufficiency. When he has looked about him as far as he can, he concludes there is no more to be feen ; when he is at the end of his line, he is at the bottom...when he has fhot his beft, he is fure, none ever did nor ever can moot better or beyond it. His own reafon is the certain meafure of truth, his own knowledge,...
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Essays on rhetoric: abridged chiefly from dr. Blair's lectures on that science

Hugh Blair - 1784 - 412 pages
...fufficiency. When he has looked " about him, as far as he can, he con" eludes there is no more to be feen ; " when he is at the end of his line, he " is at the bottom of the ocean ; when ** he has (hot his beft, he is fure none " ever did, or ever can, fhoot better, " or beyond it. His own reafon...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 1

Hugh Blair - 1787 - 482 pages
...When " he has looked about him, as far as he can, ,« he concludes, there is no more to be feen ; " when he is at the end of his line, he is at the " bottom .of the ocean ; when he has (hot his ." beft, he is fure none ever did, or ever can, tc fhoot better, or beyond it. His own reafon...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 1

Hugh Blair - 1793 - 518 pages
...cy. When he has looked about him, as far as *' he can, he concludes, there is no more to be " ieen ; when he is at the end of his line, he is at " the bottom of the ocean ; when he has fhot hii " belt, he is fure none ever did, or ever can, flioot " better, or beyond it. His own reafon he...
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Essays on rhetoric: abridged chiefly from dr. Blair's lectures on that science

Hugh Blair - 1801 - 374 pages
...fufficiency. When he has looked about him, " as far as he can, he concludes there is no more to " be feen ; when he is at the end of his line, he is at " the...his beft, " he is fure none ever did, or ever can, moot better, " or beyond it. His own reafon he holds to be the " certain meafure of truth ; and his...
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A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and ...

John Walker - 1801 - 424 pages
...sufficiency. When he has looked about him, *' as far as he can, he concludes there is no " more to be seen; when he is at the end of his " line, he is at the bottom of the ocean ; when " he has shot his best, he is sure none ever did, " or ever can, shoot better, or beyond it. His " own reason...
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An Abridgement of Lectures on Rhetoric

Hugh Blair - 1802 - 328 pages
...cy. When he has looked about him as far, as " he can, he concludes there is no more to be fcen ; •' when he is at the end of his line, he is at the bottom...or ever can fhoot better, or beyond it. " His own rcafou he holds to be the certain meaiure of " truth ; and his own knowledge of what is poffible in...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 1

Hugh Blair - 1802 - 416 pages
...fufficiency. When he has looked " about him, as far as he can, he concludes, there is no more " to be feen ; when he is at the end of his line, he is at the "...bottom of the ocean ; when he has fhot his beft, he is furs " none ever did, or ever can, fhoot better, or beyond it. His " own reafon he holds to be the...
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An Abridgment of Lectures on Rhetorick

Hugh Blair - 1805 - 280 pages
...When he has looked about him as far as he can, " he concludes there is no more to be feen ; when he u is at the end of his line, he is at the bottom of...has fhot his beft, he is fure none " ever did, or even can (hoot better, or beyond it. " His own reafon he holds to be the certain meafure • M of truth...
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