In dealing with strictures on Mr Bradlaugh's conduct or opinions, it is not sufficient to say that they are without justification; one must show how and where the error lies, and where possible, the source of error.
These strictures were made as cautions, and as a kind of antidote to the writer's own undisguised partiality for the 'metaphysical' style.
Nor should any reader be deterred from making the examination by the strictureswhich have been given above on Cleveland's purely poetical methods and merits.
Too little remains of Lucilius, to enable us to judge of his manner: his style seems, however, to bear fewer marks of delicacy than of strength, and his strictures appear harsh and violent.
Van Heusde considers that this book contained some severe strictures on the part of a morose old man, or stern uncle, on the over-indulgence of a fond and foolish father.
This shall I undertake; and 'tis a burden Which I am proud to bear.
Strictures respecting the Interior of Africa, and Confirmation of Jackson's Account of Sudan, annexed to his Account of the Empire of Marocco, &c.
He is here referring to the strictures contained in the Annotations of Erasmus on the New Testament, in particular on Math.
In his mortification at the want of response to his call he allowed himself to be carried away to strictures and predictions which greatly excited the masses.
She wrote a series of essays called Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education, in which she protested loudly against the tendency to give girls an ornamental rather than a useful education.
This is said in anticipation of certain strictures that will be likely to follow some of the incidents of our story, it not being always deemed an essential in an American critic, that he should understand his subject.
It is not for a foreigner to express an opinion on the internal ordering of a country not his own, but unbiassed French experts found that the strictures were called for and the verdict, in which the public acquiesced, was well grounded.
And if success be nine-tenths of justification, as the Prussian doctrine teaches, the statesmen who preside over the destinies of the Teutonic peoples have little to fear in the way of strictures from their domestic critics.
Franklin's last letter to Sally was written from Passy, and contains the inimitable strictures on the Order of the Cincinnati, to which we shall hereafter return, but nothing of any personal or domestic interest.
One result was these scornful strictures by Albert Henry Smyth in the Introduction to his edition of Franklin's writings: "He is nice in his use of moral epithets; he will not offend one stomach with his choice of words.
We have seen several of thestrictures of Camoens on the barbarous nobility of Portugal.
The French translator very cordially agrees with the Portuguese poet in the strictures upon Germany, England, and Italy.
The bold manner in which Johnson delivered what he believed to be the truth, naturally provoked hostile attack, and we are not prepared to say, that, in many instances, the strictures passed upon him might not be just.
His eyes were open to all the operations of whiggism; and he bestowed some strictures upon Dr.
Hence, no doubt, proceeded his capricious strictureson the odes of Gray to which we, with painful candour, advert.
Such were the strictures of Milbourne, who found few abetters, and of whom it may be reasonably imagined, that many who favoured his design were ashamed of his insolence.
His strictures are those of the academic pedant, Dryden's are those of the man of the world.
These strictures of Dryden about English refer primarily to literature, but they are applicable to the colloquial language.
I may, perhaps, be allowed in this last chapter to quit the impersonal style of the essayist and to refer to some strictures passed upon earlier chapters of these studies.
However, the first of these strictures is based on gross ignorance of the facts, resulting from a superficial investigation of the articles involved, for the alleged disagreement is purely imaginary.
Melanchthon was diplomatic enough to hide from the Landgrave his strictures on Luther's articles about the Pope, knowing well that in this point he could expect neither approval nor support.
In this point, too, the strictures of modern pedagogs on Luther's Catechism are therefore unwarranted.
The truly objective manner in which he dealt with this matter appears from his Strictures on the Testament of Dr.
The strictures on slavery and on the constitution of Virginia, are not of that kind, and they are the parts which I do not wish to have made public, at least till I know whether their publication would do most harm or good.
Times before, when we downrightly transgressed by eating wild crabs, or taking off our stockings to wade in the brook too early in the season, we bore our mother's strictures according to our several dispositions.
But he qualifies hisstrictures by saying, "the Emperor is a great general; he bears fatigue like the most hardened soldiers; he is brave in danger and just in governing.
As the author was unknown the strictures were free and the verdict unfavorable.
William Parry, of Wymondly, in a piece entitled "Strictures on the Origin of Moral Evil.
Having therefore no feeling of personal disrespect, he deems no apology to be necessary for the freedom of his strictures on a work which challenges attention and defies contradiction.
Sprat, by the severe strictureshe wrote on the Royal-Hydrographer’s book, in the letter he published, addressed to Dr.
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