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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
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 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 Charles Brockden Brown
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
The censors are privileged to animadvert on the conduct even of the emperor himself; to censure the manner in which all other officials perform or neglect their duties and to denounce them to the throne.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various
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