The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 2A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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... critics of that nation have refined on their language to excess , and by needless re- petitions have sometimes enervated the expression , their criticisms , when useful in assisting us to shun any obscurity or ambiguity , de- terve to ...
... critics of that nation have refined on their language to excess , and by needless re- petitions have sometimes enervated the expression , their criticisms , when useful in assisting us to shun any obscurity or ambiguity , de- terve to ...
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... critics have been so strongly per- suaded of the bad effect of parentheses on perspicuity , as to think they ought to be discarded altogether . Bolingb . Phil . Fr. 30. + Phil , Fr. 9. Guardian , No. 19 . Sect . I. The obscurity ...
... critics have been so strongly per- suaded of the bad effect of parentheses on perspicuity , as to think they ought to be discarded altogether . Bolingb . Phil . Fr. 30. + Phil , Fr. 9. Guardian , No. 19 . Sect . I. The obscurity ...
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... criticism , but cannot be regarded as a violation of the laws of perspicuity . It is neither with the liar nor with the punster that I am concerned at present . The only species of equivoca- tion that comes under reprehension here , is ...
... criticism , but cannot be regarded as a violation of the laws of perspicuity . It is neither with the liar nor with the punster that I am concerned at present . The only species of equivoca- tion that comes under reprehension here , is ...
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... critics call galimatias , and the English comprehend under the general name bombast , and which may not improperly be defined the sublime of nonsense . You have lofty images and high sounding Characteristics , Vol . III . Misc . ir ...
... critics call galimatias , and the English comprehend under the general name bombast , and which may not improperly be defined the sublime of nonsense . You have lofty images and high sounding Characteristics , Vol . III . Misc . ir ...
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... critic has nowhere hinted what sense it is which he denominates this sense , so I believe no reader will be able to conjecture , what the author might have said , and not absurdly said , to the same effect . The misfortune is , that ...
... critic has nowhere hinted what sense it is which he denominates this sense , so I believe no reader will be able to conjecture , what the author might have said , and not absurdly said , to the same effect . The misfortune is , that ...
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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