 | James Boadan - 1800 - 380 pages
...uses, as the matter pressed upon our reflection. Mr. Burke thus expresses himself: " There is a style which daily gains ground amongst us, which I should be sorry to see farther advanced by the authority of a writer of your just reputation. The tendency of the mode to... | |
 | 1801 - 446 pages
...; but at the same time I think it more easy lo discover them than to coirect them. There is a style which daily gains ground amongst us, which I should be sorry to see farther advanced by the authority of a writer of your just reputation. The tendency of the mode to... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 620 pages
...Since these remarks on Dr Robertson's style were written, I have met with some critical reflections on the same subject by Mr Burke, too honourable for...particulars, they do not coincide with the opinion 1 have presumed to state*. * * It is proper for me to mention, that I have no -authority for the authenticity... | |
 | William Robertson - 1811 - 468 pages
...Since these remarks on Dr. Robertson's style were written, I have met with some critical reflexions on the same subject by Mr. Burke, too honourable for Dr. Robertson to be suppressed here, although, in some particulars, they do not coincide with the opinion I have presumed to state.*... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 pages
...faults, but at the same time I think it more easy to discover them than to correct them. There is a style which daily gains ground amongst us, which I should be sorry to see further advanced by the authority of a writer of your just reputation. The tendency of the mode to which I allude, is to... | |
 | William Robertson, Dugald Stewart - 1827 - 606 pages
...Since these remarks on Dr. Robertson's style were written, I have met with some critical reflections on the same subject by Mr. Burke, too honourable for...do not coincide with the opinion I have presumed to state.* " There is a style," says Mr. Burke, in a letter addressed to Mr. Murphy on his translation... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 pages
...; but at the same time I think it more easy to discover them than to correct them. There is a style which daily gains ground amongst us, which I should be sorry to see farther advanced by the authority of a writer of your just reputation. The tendency of the mode to... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 410 pages
...reflections on the same subject by Mr. Burke, too honorable for Dr. Robertson to be suppressed here, although in some particulars, they do not coincide with the opinion I have presumed to state.* "There is a style," says Mr. Burke, in a letter addressed to Mr. Murphy on his translation... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 430 pages
...reflections on the same subject by Mr. Burke, too honorable for Dr. Robertson to be suppressed here, although in some particulars, they do not coincide with the opinion I have presumed to state.* " There is a style," says Mr. Burke, in a letter addressed to Mr. Murphy on his translation... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 422 pages
...reflections on the same subject by Mr. Burke, too honorable for Dr. Robertson to be suppressed here, although in some particulars, they do not coincide with the opinion I have presumed to state." "There is a style," says Mr. Burke, in a letter addressed to Mr. Murphy on his translation... | |
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be sorry to see further advanced by a writer of your just " reputation. The tendency of the mode to which I allude " is, to establish two very different idioms amongst us, " and to introduce a marked distinction between the En" glish that is written... 
