 | Edmund Burke - 1780 - 726 Seiten
...and confift in pofttions not limited by exceptions, and in defcriptions not defending to minuteneis. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in...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... | |
 | 1780 - 596 Seiten
...and confilt in portions not limited by exceptions, and in defcriptions not defcending to minutenefs. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 498 Seiten
...and confift in politions not limited by exceptions, and in defcriptions not defcending to minutenefs. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in...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, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 Seiten
...and conlift in politions not limited by exceptions, and in defcriptions not defcending to minutenefs. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in...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 - 478 Seiten
...and confirt in pofitions not limited by exceptions, and in defcriptions not dcfcending to minutenefs. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in...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 - 610 Seiten
...and confift in pofitions not limited by exceptions, and in defcriptions not defcending to minutenefs. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in...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 - 714 Seiten
...second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions...writers who la"y on the watch for novelty could have ink hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. Their attempts were... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 Seiten
...and confift in politions not limited by exceptions, and in defcriptions not defcending to minuteneis. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in...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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 Seiten
...second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions...distinction. Those writers who lay on the watch for invelty could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 Seiten
...second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions...things cannot have escaped former observation. Their attempts were always analytick ; they broke every image mto fragments; and could no more represent,... | |
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... for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by... 
