animadvert on
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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 S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter
I shall have occasion further to animadvert on it.
From Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark by Mary Wollstonecraft
I presumed to animadvert on his eulogy on Garrick, in his Lives of the Poets.
From Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by Charles Grosvenor Osgood
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
