The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 1W. Strahan, 1776 - 511 pages |
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... folely for practice , the rules laid down for the ordinary operations , as for numeration , or numerical notation , addition , fubtraction , multiplication , divifion , and a few others , which are fufficient for all the purposes of the ...
... folely for practice , the rules laid down for the ordinary operations , as for numeration , or numerical notation , addition , fubtraction , multiplication , divifion , and a few others , which are fufficient for all the purposes of the ...
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... used for a high degree of efteem ; but when otherwife applied , it denotes folely an internal tafte . It is that pleasurable fenfation which inftantly arifeth on the perception of magnitude , or which THE PHILOSOPHY B. I..
... used for a high degree of efteem ; but when otherwife applied , it denotes folely an internal tafte . It is that pleasurable fenfation which inftantly arifeth on the perception of magnitude , or which THE PHILOSOPHY B. I..
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... folely from the imagery the employs , or the ftrange affemblage of related ideas prefented to the mind , This In the latter of these the ancients excel ; in the former , the moderns . Demofthenes and Cicero , not to say , Homer and ...
... folely from the imagery the employs , or the ftrange affemblage of related ideas prefented to the mind , This In the latter of these the ancients excel ; in the former , the moderns . Demofthenes and Cicero , not to say , Homer and ...
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... folely as an auxiliary , humour predominates . The comic poet bears . the fame analogy to the author of the mock- heroic , that the tragic poet bears to the author of the epic . The epos recites , and advancing with a step majestic and ...
... folely as an auxiliary , humour predominates . The comic poet bears . the fame analogy to the author of the mock- heroic , that the tragic poet bears to the author of the epic . The epos recites , and advancing with a step majestic and ...
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... folely fup- ported by the vigour and healthiness of his • conftitution , which incline him to pleasure , thoughtleffnefs , and prefumption ; according- ly you find , that when this foundation is fub- verted , the whole fabric of ...
... folely fup- ported by the vigour and healthiness of his • conftitution , which incline him to pleasure , thoughtleffnefs , and prefumption ; according- ly you find , that when this foundation is fub- verted , the whole fabric of ...
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