The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 1W. Strahan, 1776 - 511 pages |
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... 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 in ...
... 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 in ...
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... term . For , in the first place , that it ought to be ranked among the polite or fine arts , is manifeft from this , that in all its exertions , with little or no exception , ( as will appear after- wards ) it requires the aid of the ...
... term . For , in the first place , that it ought to be ranked among the polite or fine arts , is manifeft from this , that in all its exertions , with little or no exception , ( as will appear after- wards ) it requires the aid of the ...
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... vocant , nos “ fanè vifiones appellamus , per quas imagines rerum absen- " tium ita repræfentantur animo , ut eas cernere oculis ac " præfentes habere videamur . " if if fo uncommon an application of the term may be CH . I. 27 OF RHETORIC .
... vocant , nos “ fanè vifiones appellamus , per quas imagines rerum absen- " tium ita repræfentantur animo , ut eas cernere oculis ac " præfentes habere videamur . " if if fo uncommon an application of the term may be CH . I. 27 OF RHETORIC .
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George Campbell. if fo uncommon an application of the term may be allowed , confifts in perfpicuity . Perfpicu- ity here refults entirely from propriety and fimplicity of diction , and from accuracy of method , where the mind is ...
George Campbell. if fo uncommon an application of the term may be allowed , confifts in perfpicuity . Perfpicu- ity here refults entirely from propriety and fimplicity of diction , and from accuracy of method , where the mind is ...
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... terms , which are confidered as literally expreffive of the latter , are also used promifcuously to de- note the former . Now admiration , when thus applied , doth not require to its production , as the paffions generally do , any ...
... terms , which are confidered as literally expreffive of the latter , are also used promifcuously to de- note the former . Now admiration , when thus applied , doth not require to its production , as the paffions generally do , any ...
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