animadvert on

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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

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)

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

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

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 Dick, Hugh G.