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ESSAY on the foUo'whig Subjea, propofed by the ACADEMY, 

 viz. " On STYLE in WRITING, confidered with re/pea to 

 " Thoughts and Sentiments as -well as Words, and indicating the 

 " Writer s peculiar and charaEieriJlic Di/pojition, Habits and Powers 

 " of Mind." BytheRev.RO'QY.Yii: BURROWES, D. D. 

 F. T. C. D. and Secretary to the Royal IriJJj Academy. 



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OCTOR BLAIR fays the beft definition he can give of Read May 



. "> '793- 

 flyle is " the peculiar manner in which a man expreffes his 



" conceptions by means of language." This definition how- 

 ever he faw would leave flyle merely verbal, and therefore he 

 proceeds to amend it by obferving " that it is different from 

 " mere language or words — that it has always reference to an 

 " author's manner of thinking — and that to feparate the ftyle 

 " from the fentiment is extremely difficult. No wonder," 

 fays he, " that thefe two fhould be fo intimately connedled, as 

 " the flyle is nothing elfe than that fort of expreffion which our 

 thoughts mofl readily affume." Hence he remarks that dif- 

 ferent countries have been noted for peculiarities of flyle fuited 

 to their different temper and genius ; a remark which he after- 

 wards 



