... and projects suspended in deliberation. But when a design has ended in miscarriage or success, when every eye and every ear is witness to general discontent, or general satisfaction, it is then a proper time to disentangle confusion and illustrate... Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces - Page 17by Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 375 pagesFull view - About this book
| James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1900 - 928 pages
...to disentangle confusion and illustrate obscurity ; to show by what causes every event wasproduced, arallel ramifications, how can a consecutive series be formed of distant particularity what rumour always huddles in general exclamation, or perplexes by indigested... | |
| James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pages
...it is then a proper time to disentangle confusion and illustrate obscurity ; to shew by what causes ood. They pay you by feeling.' BOSWBLL. ' Foote has a great deal of humour distinct particularity what rumour always huddles in general exclamation, or perplexes by indigested... | |
| Marshall Brown - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 516 pages
...projected history of the Seven Years' War confirms that the aim of history is "to show by what causes every event was produced, and in what effects it is likely to terminate" ( Works, ed. Cunningham, 3: 401). History is a domain of knowledge, and it should steer clear of primeval... | |
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