The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 2A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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... , unless when it is emphatical . But the idiom of most modern tongues , English and French particularly , will Of perspicuity . seldom admit such ellipsis * . In A 4 Chap . V1 . RHETORIC . 7 SECT I The obscure Párt I From defect.
... , unless when it is emphatical . But the idiom of most modern tongues , English and French particularly , will Of perspicuity . seldom admit such ellipsis * . In A 4 Chap . V1 . RHETORIC . 7 SECT I The obscure Párt I From defect.
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... English , my father and mother ; because the possessive pronoun having no distinction of gen- der , and so having but one form , is alike applicable to both the case being different with them renders it necessary to follow a dif- ferent ...
... English , my father and mother ; because the possessive pronoun having no distinction of gen- der , and so having but one form , is alike applicable to both the case being different with them renders it necessary to follow a dif- ferent ...
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... English idiom , be sometimes omitted in the oblique cases , to omit them in the nominative , as in the passage last quoted , almost always gives a maimed appearance to the expression . " I perceived 86 it had been scowered with half an ...
... English idiom , be sometimes omitted in the oblique cases , to omit them in the nominative , as in the passage last quoted , almost always gives a maimed appearance to the expression . " I perceived 86 it had been scowered with half an ...
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... English tongue : " To " this succeeded that licentiousness which entered with " the Restoration , and from infecting our religion and " morals , fell to corrupt our language , ( which last was " not like to be much improved by those who ...
... English tongue : " To " this succeeded that licentiousness which entered with " the Restoration , and from infecting our religion and " morals , fell to corrupt our language , ( which last was " not like to be much improved by those who ...
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... English , one is never at a loss to discover whether the reference be to per- sons or to things . In French and Italian the expression is often ambiguous in this respect also . in this respect also . In a Frencn devotional book . Of ...
... English , one is never at a loss to discover whether the reference be to per- sons or to things . In French and Italian the expression is often ambiguous in this respect also . in this respect also . In a Frencn devotional book . Of ...
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