The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 1W. Strahan, 1776 - 511 pages |
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... laft term is always understood more than build- ing merely for accommodation , are to be con- fidered as of a mixed nature , wherein utility and beauty have almoft equal influence , THE elegant arts , as well as the useful , are founded ...
... laft term is always understood more than build- ing merely for accommodation , are to be con- fidered as of a mixed nature , wherein utility and beauty have almoft equal influence , THE elegant arts , as well as the useful , are founded ...
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... laft fubdues the most stubborn resolution . It is alfo a useful art . This is certainly the cafe , if the power of speech be a useful faculty , as it 1 corruerunt . Neque datur in univerfitate rerum tam intima fympathia quam illa Veri ...
... laft fubdues the most stubborn resolution . It is alfo a useful art . This is certainly the cafe , if the power of speech be a useful faculty , as it 1 corruerunt . Neque datur in univerfitate rerum tam intima fympathia quam illa Veri ...
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... laft is to canvass those principles in our nature , to which the various attempts are adapted , and by which , in any in- ftance , their fuccefs , or want of fuccefs , may be accounted for . By the first step the critic is fup- plied ...
... laft is to canvass those principles in our nature , to which the various attempts are adapted , and by which , in any in- ftance , their fuccefs , or want of fuccefs , may be accounted for . By the first step the critic is fup- plied ...
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... laft ftep , it may be faid to bring us into a new country , of which , though there have been fome fuccessful incurfions occafionally made upon its frontiers , we are not yet in full pof- feffion . * P. 1. l . 1 . C & THE 1 THE ...
... laft ftep , it may be faid to bring us into a new country , of which , though there have been fome fuccessful incurfions occafionally made upon its frontiers , we are not yet in full pof- feffion . * P. 1. l . 1 . C & THE 1 THE ...
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... laft it was impoffible to rife to eminence , without that important talent , the power of perfuafion . Thefe were in much more frequent ufe than the first , and withal the fureft means of advancing both the fortune and the fame of the ...
... laft it was impoffible to rife to eminence , without that important talent , the power of perfuafion . Thefe were in much more frequent ufe than the first , and withal the fureft means of advancing both the fortune and the fame of the ...
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