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There is always plenty of room for severe animadversion, and the harpies of the Courts are always upon the look-out, to pounce upon and make victims of those who venture to animadvert on them.
From Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3 by Henry Hunt
This leads me to animadvert on an erroneous inference which hegelian idealism makes from the form of the negative judgment.
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James
Replying to an extremely dear reader: Whenever we animadvert on the human race we include ourself.
From The So-called Human Race by Bert Leston Taylor
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 Charles Duke Yonge
It is not with any secret Pleasure, that I so frequently animadvert on Mr. Pope as a Critick; but there are Provocations, which a Man can never quite forget.
From Preface to the Works of Shakespeare (1734) by Hugh G. Dick
