The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 2A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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... answered CHAP . IX . site , and what kind ? ... May there not be an excess of perspicuity ? BOOK III . The discriminating Properties of Elocution . • 80 ib . 98 III ib . 121 130 CHAP . I. SECT . I. Of vivacity as depending on the choice ...
... answered CHAP . IX . site , and what kind ? ... May there not be an excess of perspicuity ? BOOK III . The discriminating Properties of Elocution . • 80 ib . 98 III ib . 121 130 CHAP . I. SECT . I. Of vivacity as depending on the choice ...
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... answering their respective ends . That there is a beauty in the perceived fitness of means to their end , and instruments to their use , is uncontrovertible . All that I contend for here is , that this is not the whole of what is ...
... answering their respective ends . That there is a beauty in the perceived fitness of means to their end , and instruments to their use , is uncontrovertible . All that I contend for here is , that this is not the whole of what is ...
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... answer t . " If that was the case , Pray , what is he supposing to have been the case ? To the relative that I can find no antece- dent , and am left to guess that he means , if there was but one minister . " When a man considers not ...
... answer t . " If that was the case , Pray , what is he supposing to have been the case ? To the relative that I can find no antece- dent , and am left to guess that he means , if there was but one minister . " When a man considers not ...
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... answers to the Latin facere , and the 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 ...
... answers to the Latin facere , and the 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 ...
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... answered , and the like , that the dialogue , if long , is very apt to grow irksome . But it is at least pardonable to adopt this method oc- casionally , where it can serve to remove an ambigui- 66 * It would not be ambiguous in Latin ...
... answered , and the like , that the dialogue , if long , is very apt to grow irksome . But it is at least pardonable to adopt this method oc- casionally , where it can serve to remove an ambigui- 66 * It would not be ambiguous in Latin ...
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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