| 1793 - 328 páginas
...though not always decorated with the flowers of eloquence, muft be far more ufeful and interefting than the ftudied paragraphs of Pliny, or the pompous...manners, and are the genuine .emanations of nature. Of this kind I fhall felect a few from the heap I have received from my correfpondents, each of which... | |
| British essayists - 1802 - 330 páginas
...interesting than the studied paragraphs of Pliny, or the pompous declamations of Balsac; as they contain just pictures of life and manners, and are the genuine emanations of nature. Of this kind I shall select a few from the heap I have received from my correspondents, each of which... | |
| 1804 - 764 páginas
...though not nlways decorated with the flowers of eloquence, rauft be far more ufeful and interefting than the ftudied paragraphs of Pliny, or the pompous declamations of Balfac ; as they contain jtift pietures of life and manners, and are the genuine -emanations of nature." It is very certain... | |
| 1819 - 332 páginas
...than the studied paragraphs of Pliny, or the pompous declamations of Balsac ; as they contain just pictures of life and manners, and are the genuine emanations of nature. Of this kind I shall select a few from the heap I have received from my correspondents, each of which... | |
| John Hawkesworth - 1823 - 302 páginas
...than the studied paragraphs of Pliny, or the pompous declamations of Balsac ; as they contain just pictures of life and manners, and are the genuine emanations of nature. Of this kind I shall select a few from the heap I have received from my correspondents, each of which... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 650 páginas
...interesting than the studied paragraphs of Pliny, or the pompous declamations of Balsac; as they contain just pictures of life and manners, and are the genuine emanations of nature. Of this kind I shall select a few from the heap I have received from my correspondents, each of which... | |
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