animadvert on
Example Sentences
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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 was at liberty to animadvert on the visible part of their intercourse.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
I should not animadvert on him… if he had not used extreme severity in his judgment of the incomparable Shakespeare.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
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
