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...and choice epithet. [Take* out his table-book. Hot. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity ftner than the staple of his argument. I abhor such fanatical...companions ; such rackers of orthography, as to speak, ilout, fine, when he should say, doubt; det, when he should pronounce, debt; d, e, b, t; not, d, e,...

...it were, too peregrinate, as I may call it. Nath. A most singular and choice epithet. [Takes out his table-book. Hoi. He draweth out the thread of his...of his argument. I abhor such fanatical phantasms, sucli insociable and point-devise companions; such rackers of orthography, as to speak, dout, fine,...

...it were, too perigrinate, as I may call it. Math. A most singular and choice epithet. \Takea out his table-book. Hoi. He draweth out the thread of his...of his argument. I abhor such fanatical phantasms, 2 such insociable and point-devise 3 companions; such rackers of orthography, as to speak, dout, fine,...

...5 without affection,] ie without affectation. c thrasonical] Boastful, bragging, from Terence. Hol. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than...the staple of his argument. I abhor such fanatical fantasms, such insociable and point-devise8 companions; such rackers of orthography, as to speak, dout,...

...the same with obstinacy or opiniatrete. JOHNSON. 5 without affection,] ie without affectation. Hol. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than...the staple of his argument. I abhor such fanatical fantasms, such insociable and point-devise 9 companions; such rackers of orthography, as to speak,...

...speaking of Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, " That in some passages he drew the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." ccxvi. Pope. Sir Joshua Reynolds used to tell the following anecdote relative to Pope : — When Reynolds...

...were, too perigrinate, as I may call it. JVatli. A most singular and choice epithet. [Takes out his table-book. Hoi. He draweth out the thread of his...the staple of his argument. I abhor such fanatical phantasms,2 such insociable and point -de vise3 companions; such rackers of orthography, as to speak,...

...perigrinate, as I may call it. Nath. A most singular and choice epithet. [Takes out his table book. Hol. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than...his argument. I abhor such fanatical phantasms, such unsociable and point-devise companions; such rackers of orthography, as to speak, dout, fine, when...

...may call it. Nath. A most singular and choice epithet. I Jakes out his table-book. Hoi. He dvaweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple...abhor such fanatical phantasms, such insociable and fioint-devise companions ; such rackers of orthography, as to speak, dout, fine, when he should say,...