The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 2A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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... 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.
... 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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... French , I imagine , have gone to the other extreme . They require , in many instances , a repetition of pronouns , prepositions , and articles , which , as they add nothing to the perspicuity , must render the expressión languid ...
... French , I imagine , have gone to the other extreme . They require , in many instances , a repetition of pronouns , prepositions , and articles , which , as they add nothing to the perspicuity , must render the expressión languid ...
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... French faire . In the next quotation the homonymous term may be either an adjective or an adverb , and admits a dif- ferent sense in each acceptation : Not only Jesuits can equivocate * . If the word only is here an adverb , the sense ...
... French faire . In the next quotation the homonymous term may be either an adjective or an adverb , and admits a dif- ferent sense in each acceptation : Not only Jesuits can equivocate * . If the word only is here an adverb , the sense ...
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... 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 perspicuity . BUT there is often an ambiguity in C2 Chap . VI . 35 RHETORIC .
... 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 perspicuity . BUT there is often an ambiguity in C2 Chap . VI . 35 RHETORIC .
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... French , a writer must give the article indiscriminately in all the instances above specified . Thus , " L'homme , qui est né de la femme , vit très - peu de tems , “ et il est rempli de miseres ; and " L'homme , qui perseverera jus- qu ...
... French , a writer must give the article indiscriminately in all the instances above specified . Thus , " L'homme , qui est né de la femme , vit très - peu de tems , “ et il est rempli de miseres ; and " L'homme , qui perseverera jus- qu ...
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adjectives adverb ambiguity anapest antithesis antonomasia appear arrangement better catachresis cause Chap choice of words clauses Complex sentences composition conducive to vivacity conjunctions connectives employed connexive consequence considered as sounds copulative denominated denote discourse doth effect ellipsis employed in combining English equivocal example exhibit expression figure former French give guage hath hearer ideas idiom imagine imitation instance justly kind language Latin manner meaning metaphor metonymy mind modern nature necessary nonsense noun object obscurity observed occasion offences against brevity Paradise Lost particle particular passage periphrasis perspicuity phrases pleonasm preceding preposition principles pronoun proper terms properly propriety reason regard relation remark rendered sense sensible sentiment serve signify signs Simple sentences sometimes speak speaker species Spect spondee style substantive syllables synecdoché Tatler tautology tence ther things thought tion tive tongue translation verb verse vivacity as depending wherein writer