animadvert on

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I disdained to animadvert on these defects, naturally supposing that his house could furnish no better.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden

It is with regret that I animadvert on such a veteran in literature as Mr. Cumberland.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)

I shall have occasion further to animadvert on it.

From Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark by Wollstonecraft, Mary

But what occasion is there to animadvert on the opinions of individuals, when we may observe whole nations to fall into all sorts of errors?

From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Yonge, Charles Duke

Replying to an extremely dear reader: Whenever we animadvert on the human race we include ourself.

From The So-called Human Race by Taylor, Bert Leston