Elements of General Knowledge Introductory to Useful Books in the Principal Br
Elements of General Knowledge Introductory to Useful Books in the Principal Br
Henry Kett
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In the reign of Charles II. The reader will find no author more worthy of his attention than Bar- row, whofe periods are fo full and exuberant, as to give no inadequate reprefentation of the eloquence of Cicero. He exhaufts every fubject which he undertakes to difcufs, leaving nothing but admira- tion of the boundlefs fertility of his mind, to the writers who follow him upon the fame topics, They difplay to the greateft advantage the energy of his intellectual powers, employed upon the molt imp...ortant fubjecls of morality and religion. . The great Locke, in a plain and fevere ftyle, well adapted to the philofophical preciiion of his re- fearchcs, unravelled the intricacies of the moll iti- terefting branch of pliilofophy by tracing ideas to their fource, and developing the faculties of the mind. In the illuftrious reign of Anne, when Bri- tain reached a degree of glory in literature and arts, which might be put in competition with the age of Pericles, or Auguftus; Swift in clear and familiar didion, unaided by flowery ornaments, ' exprefied THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
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