LECTURES ON RHETORIC AND BELLES LETTRES: IN THREE VOLUMES.A. Strahan; T. Cadell, in the Strand; and W. Creech, in Edinburgh, 1787 |
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... fubject , I may be allowed , on this occafion , to fuggeft a few thoughts concerning the importance and ad- vantages of fuch ftudies , and the rank they are intitled to poffefs in academical education * . I am under no temptation , for ...
... fubject , I may be allowed , on this occafion , to fuggeft a few thoughts concerning the importance and ad- vantages of fuch ftudies , and the rank they are intitled to poffefs in academical education * . I am under no temptation , for ...
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... fubject of these Lectures . To them , rhetoric is not fo much a practical art as a fpeculative fcience ; and the fame in- ftructions which affift others in compofing , will affift them in difcerning , and relishing , the beauties of ...
... fubject of these Lectures . To them , rhetoric is not fo much a practical art as a fpeculative fcience ; and the fame in- ftructions which affift others in compofing , will affift them in difcerning , and relishing , the beauties of ...
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... fubject of moral obligation . Belles Lettres and criticifm chiefly consider him as a Being endowed with those powers of taste and imagination , which were intended to embellifh his mind , and to fupply him with rational and ufeful ...
... fubject of moral obligation . Belles Lettres and criticifm chiefly consider him as a Being endowed with those powers of taste and imagination , which were intended to embellifh his mind , and to fupply him with rational and ufeful ...
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... fubject agree perfectly with what has been faid above . He is fpeaking of the beauties of ftyle and numbers . " Illud autem ne- quis admiretur quonam modo hæc vulgus imperitorum in audiendo , notet ; cum in omni genere , tum in hoc ...
... fubject agree perfectly with what has been faid above . He is fpeaking of the beauties of ftyle and numbers . " Illud autem ne- quis admiretur quonam modo hæc vulgus imperitorum in audiendo , notet ; cum in omni genere , tum in hoc ...
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... fubject , that Tafte is a moft improveable faculty , if there be any fuch in human nature ; a remark which gives great encouragement to fuch a courfe of ftudy as we are now propofing to purfue . Of the truth of this affertion we may ...
... fubject , that Tafte is a moft improveable faculty , if there be any fuch in human nature ; a remark which gives great encouragement to fuch a courfe of ftudy as we are now propofing to purfue . Of the truth of this affertion we may ...
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