 | 1780 - Počet stránok 596
...exceptions, and in defcriptions not defcending to minutenefs. 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 diftinfiion. Thofe writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatnefs ; for... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1780 - Počet stránok 726
...exceptions, and in defcriptions not defending to minuteneis. 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 diftinftion. Thofe writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatnefs ; for... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - Počet stránok 590
...and in defcriptions not defcending to minutenefs. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which iu its original import means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of dillinclion. Thofe writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatnefs; for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - Počet stránok 498
...exceptions, and in defcriptions not defcending to minutenefs. 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 diftincYion. Thofe writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of grcatnds; for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - Počet stránok 478
...exceptions, and in defcriptions not dcfcending to minutenefs. 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 diftinction. Thofe writers who lie on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatnefs; for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1795 - Počet stránok 610
...exceptions, and in defcriptions not defcending to minutenefs. 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 diftinction. Thofe writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatnefs ; for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - Počet stránok 714
...the first effect is'sudderi astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great...descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in its original import means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - Počet stránok 476
...exceptions, and in defcriptions not defcending to minuteneis. 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 diftinction. Thofe writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatnefs ; for... | |
 | 1801 - Počet stránok 860
...exceptions, and in defcriptions not defcending to minutenefs. It is with great propriety that fubtilty (which in its original import means exility of particles)...is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of diftinftion. Thofe writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatnefs, for... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - Počet stránok 716
...the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great...descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in its original import means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning... | |
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Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. 
