The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 1W. Strahan, 1776 - 511 pages |
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... feems to have ad- vanced farthest in this way , is the Elements of Criticism . But the fubject of the learned and ingenious author of that work , is rather too mul- tifarious to admit so narrow a scrutiny as would be neceffary for a ...
... feems to have ad- vanced farthest in this way , is the Elements of Criticism . But the fubject of the learned and ingenious author of that work , is rather too mul- tifarious to admit so narrow a scrutiny as would be neceffary for a ...
Page 21
... feems to fubvert the principle for- merly laid down , and that as practice in the art has given the firft fcope for criticifin , the former cannot justly be confidered as deriving light and direction from the latter ; that , on the ...
... feems to fubvert the principle for- merly laid down , and that as practice in the art has given the firft fcope for criticifin , the former cannot justly be confidered as deriving light and direction from the latter ; that , on the ...
Page 58
... feems to come the nearest . Thus Cicero , " Huic generi orationis afpergentur etiam fales , qui in di- cendo mirum quantum valent ; quorum duo genera funt , ** unum tion must be either not violent or not durable , 58 B. L. THE PHILOSOPHY.
... feems to come the nearest . Thus Cicero , " Huic generi orationis afpergentur etiam fales , qui in di- cendo mirum quantum valent ; quorum duo genera funt , ** unum tion must be either not violent or not durable , 58 B. L. THE PHILOSOPHY.
Page 76
... feems to have been firft introduced into moral fubjects , and employed with fuccefs , by the fa- ther of ancient wisdom , Socrates . As the at- tack of ridicule , whatever form it adopts , is al- ways indirect , that of irony may be ...
... feems to have been firft introduced into moral fubjects , and employed with fuccefs , by the fa- ther of ancient wisdom , Socrates . As the at- tack of ridicule , whatever form it adopts , is al- ways indirect , that of irony may be ...
Page 79
... feems intended to disgrace the petty quaintness of a fop's manner , and the emp- tiness of his conversation , as being a huddle of oaths and nonsense . The third finely satirizes the value which the ladies too often put upon the mereft ...
... feems intended to disgrace the petty quaintness of a fop's manner , and the emp- tiness of his conversation , as being a huddle of oaths and nonsense . The third finely satirizes the value which the ladies too often put upon the mereft ...
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