animadvert on

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It is with concern that I find myself obliged to animadvert on the inaccuracies of Mrs. Piozzi's Anecdotes, and perhaps I may be thought to have dwelt too long upon her little collection.

From Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by Boswell, James

I was at liberty to animadvert on the visible part of their intercourse.

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

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 James, William

I might pause here a moment to animadvert on the unreasonableness of the vulgar prejudice which almost everywhere prevails against calomel.

From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

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