The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 1W. Strahan, 1776 - 511 pages |
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... refpect , as well as in others , is perhaps , on the whole , more pleaf- ing and more instructive , than too fcrupulous an uniformity . To the eye the interchange of hill and dale beautifies the profpect ; and to the ear there is no ...
... refpect , as well as in others , is perhaps , on the whole , more pleaf- ing and more instructive , than too fcrupulous an uniformity . To the eye the interchange of hill and dale beautifies the profpect ; and to the ear there is no ...
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... refpect made by the moderns . The obfervations and rules tranfmitted to us from these distinguished names in the learned world , Ariftotle , Cicero , and Quintilian , have been for the most part only tranflated by later critics , or put ...
... refpect made by the moderns . The obfervations and rules tranfmitted to us from these distinguished names in the learned world , Ariftotle , Cicero , and Quintilian , have been for the most part only tranflated by later critics , or put ...
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... refpect of its connexion with the mind lefs ex- tenfive than that here propofed . All thofe par- ticular arts are examined only on that fide , wherein there is found a pretty confiderable coincidence with one another ; namely as ob ...
... refpect of its connexion with the mind lefs ex- tenfive than that here propofed . All thofe par- ticular arts are examined only on that fide , wherein there is found a pretty confiderable coincidence with one another ; namely as ob ...
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... refpect of them , the ulti- mate . For example , a difcourfe addreffed to the understanding , and calculated to illustrate converfation , is feldom ufed in fuch a comprehenfive fenfe . I have , however , made choice of this definition ...
... refpect of them , the ulti- mate . For example , a difcourfe addreffed to the understanding , and calculated to illustrate converfation , is feldom ufed in fuch a comprehenfive fenfe . I have , however , made choice of this definition ...
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... refpect of confequences . Secondly , from ancient cuftoms . All their public orations . were ranked under three claffes , the demonftrative , the judi- ciary , and the deliberative . In the two laft it was impoffible to rife to eminence ...
... refpect of confequences . Secondly , from ancient cuftoms . All their public orations . were ranked under three claffes , the demonftrative , the judi- ciary , and the deliberative . In the two laft it was impoffible to rife to eminence ...
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