Blair
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Banish
How the ancient Celtic tongue came to be banished from the Low Countries in Scotland.
Congruous
Not congruous to the nature of epic poetry.
Degradation
Moments there frequently must be, when a sinner is sensible of the degradation of his state.
Derange
A sudden fall deranges some of our internal parts.
Digest
Joining them together and digesting them into order.
Durability
A Gothic cathedral raises ideas of grandeur in our minds by the size, its height, . . . its antiquity, and its durability.
ferociousness
It [Christianity] has adapted the ferociousness of war.
Grace
I have formerly given the general character of Mr. Addison's style and manner as natural and unaffected, easy and polite, and full of those graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over writing.
Hyperbole
Our common forms of compliment are almost all of them extravagant hyperboles.
Improvement
Exercise is the chief source of improvement in all our faculties.
Inability
It is not from an inability to discover what they ought to do, that men err in practice.
Indelicacy
The indelicacy of English comedy.
Inelegant
It renders style often obscure, always embarrassed and inelegant.
Infatuation
Such is the infatuation of self-love.
Ingenuity
All the means which human ingenuity has contrived.
Insincerity
What men call policy and knowledge of the world, is commonly no other thing than dissimulation and insincerity.
Insurancer
hose bold insurancers of deathless fame.
Negligence
remarking his beauties, . . . I must also point out his negligences and defects.
None
None of their productions are extant.
Topic
These topics, or loci, were no other than general ideas applicable to a great many different subjects, which the orator was directed to consult.