animadvert on
Example Sentences
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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 Bert Leston Taylor
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
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
I shall have occasion further to animadvert on it.
From Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark by Mary Wollstonecraft
