animadvert on
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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
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 James Boswell
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 William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
Replying to an extremely dear reader: Whenever we animadvert on the human race we include ourself.
From The So-called Human Race by Bert Leston Taylor
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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