particularity

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To pass my Evenings in so sweet a Conversation, and have the Esteem of a Woman of your Merit, has in it a Particularity of Happiness no more to be express'd than return'd.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

The more important differences of subject, involving differences of method, are seen in such contrasted departments as Science and Language, Thought and Style, Reality and Poetry, Generality and Particularity.

From Practical Essays by Bain, Alexander

Particularity contends with its like, and some loss is involved in the issue.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Various

I thought to have seen some Particularity at his Funeral, but was very much surpriz'd, that I did not observe the least Circumstance at it more than at common Interments.

From The Travels and Adventures of James Massey by Patot, Simon Tyssot de

There is such a Particularity for ever affected by them, that they are incumbered with their Charms in all they say or do.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph