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 1 IV   |        be accounted for.~All the English sectarists accepted from
 2 V    |          Established Church. The English clergy have retained a great
 3 V    |       validity and succession of English ordinations. This book was
 4 V    |          do you believe that the English Ministry were pleased with
 5 V    |      regard to the morals of the English clergy, they are more regular
 6 VIII |    Parliament~The members of the English Parliament are fond of comparing
 7 VIII |          to take the augury. The English have hanged one another
 8 VIII |        slavery, and those of the English in liberty. The English
 9 VIII |          English in liberty. The English are the only people upon
10 VIII |         its end be so fatal. The English are not fired with the splendid
11 VIII |       that of other nations. The English were exasperated against
12 VIII |          interested motives.~The English have doubtless purchased
13 VIII |      French chiefly reproach the English nation is the murder of
14 IX   |   Government~That mixture in the English Government, that harmony
15 IX   |          upon pain of death, the English either fire or candle in
16 IX   |        is true, indeed, that the English had Parliaments before and
17 IX   |         the sacred origin of the English liberties, shows in itself
18 X    |     naval power, which gives the English a superiority over the seas,
19 X    |       and still possessed by the English; a second to Porto Bello,
20 X    |        addressed himself to some English merchants. These, at an
21 X    |        raises a just pride in an English merchant, and makes him
22 X    |    impossible that the son of an English peer should be no more than
23 XI   |     countries of Europe that the English are fools and madmen. Fools,
24 XI   |   prevent an uncertain evil. The English, on the other side, call
25 XI   |        able to judge whether the English or those who differ from
26 XI   |       hence this practice of the English, if the clergy and the physicians
27 XI   |        of mere whim, in case the English should discontinue it through
28 XII  |       but in the present age the English revere his memory to such
29 XIV  |      even in chemistry among the English.~The very essence of things
30 XIV  |       made his people happy.~The English read with the highest satisfaction,
31 XIV  |       over philosophers; and the English expected his decision, as
32 XIV  |        of the superiority of the English philosophy over that of
33 XV   |   reasoned. But at that time the English had but a very imperfect
34 XV   |      degree to contain but sixty English miles, whereas it consists
35 XVI  |      easy; but, according to the English, a reflective telescope
36 XVIII|     Letter XVIII: On Tragedy~The English as well as the Spaniards
37 XVIII|         created, as it were, the English theatre. Shakspeare boasted
38 XVIII|         has been the ruin of the English stage. There are such beautiful,
39 XVIII|       discoursed with you on the English stage, and especially on
40 XVIII|  passages of the most celebrated English poets, and shall now give
41 XVIII|          tragic writer among the English. It is Dryden, a poet in
42 XVIII|       detached passages that the English have hitherto excelled.
43 XVIII|   figurative style, on which the English tongue is lifted up, raises
44 XVIII|        irregular pace. The first English writer who composed a regular
45 XVIII|         One would think that the English had been hitherto ormed
46 XVIII|        he poetical genius of the English resembles a tufted tree
47 XIX  |    published some letters on the English and French nations, should
48 XIX  |       observed in this play. The English writer has corrected the
49 XIX  |    enough raise our concern. The English comedy affects us, and the
50 XIX  |          greater height than any English writer before or since his
51 XIX  |   contemptible writers among the English have endeavoured to lessen
52 XIX  |        justice to his merit.~The English have some other good comic
53 XIX  | particulars with regard to these English comedies, which I am so
54 XIX  |         a mind to understand the English comedy, the only way to
55 XIX  |      make yourself master of the English tongue, and to frequent
56 XIX  |         of by the Spaniards, the English, or us, as by the Greeks.
57 XX   |          immediately obeyed. The English generally think, and learning
58 XX   |       traffic. Not long since an English nobleman, who was very young,
59 XX   |        and of all who understand English. However, as this is the
60 XXI  |     versions I give you from the English poets are written with freedom
61 XXI  |      impetuosity and fire of the English numbers:~"Cet esprit que
62 XXI  |        display the genius of the English poets, and therefore I shall
63 XXI  |         with false thoughts. The English had not in his time attained
64 XXII |          one of the most amiable English poets, whom you saw Plenipotentiary
65 XXII |      their harmony.~There is one English poem especially which I
66 XXII |          who has been called the English Rabelais, will never be
67 XXII |        opinion, the title of the English aebelais which is given
68 XXII |          the harsh sounds of the English trumpet to the soft accents
69 XXII |        specimens enough from the English poets. I have made some
70 XXII |      their history. Possibly the English genius, which is either
71 XXII | adulteress, a murderer. Thus the English have memorials of the several
72 XXII |      conclude, in my opinion the English have not such good historians
73 XXII |       borrow from them. Both the English and we came after the Italians,
74 XXIII|       Men Of Letters~Neither the English nor any other people have
75 XXIII|        honour of the nation. The English have so great a veneration
76 XXIII|        not the mausoleums of the English kings, but the monuments
77 XXIII|          becoming great men.~The English have even been reproached
78 XXIII|    Newton. Some pretend that the English had paid her these great
79 XXIII|        assured from me, that the English were prompted by no other
80 XXIII|         royal family; and as the English loved their prince at that
81 XXIII|          the stage. For when the English and Italians hear that we
82 XXIV |          And Other Academies~The English had an Academy of Sciences
83 XXIV |         manner than those of the English. Soldiers who are under
84 XXIV |         found an academy for the English tongue upon the model of
85 XXIV |         will last as long as the English tongue, such as Dean Swift,
86 XXIV |         in France; Mr. Pope, the English Boileau, Mr. Congreve, who
87 XXIV |       Addison, &c. had fixed the English tongue by their writings;
88 XXIV |       circumstance, to which the English Academy should especially