The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 2A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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... expression to the sentiment which the speaker or the writer intends to convey by it , as mo- ral truth consisteth in the conformity of the sentiment intended to be conveyed , to the sentiment actually entertained by the speaker or the ...
... expression to the sentiment which the speaker or the writer intends to convey by it , as mo- ral truth consisteth in the conformity of the sentiment intended to be conveyed , to the sentiment actually entertained by the speaker or the ...
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... expression as with the sentiment , it is not enough to the orator that both be true . A sentence may be a just exhibition , according to the rules of the language , of the thought intended to be conveyed by it , and may therefore , to a ...
... expression as with the sentiment , it is not enough to the orator that both be true . A sentence may be a just exhibition , according to the rules of the language , of the thought intended to be conveyed by it , and may therefore , to a ...
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... expression . There are in all languages certain el- liptical expressions , which use hath established , and which , therefore , very rarely occasion darkness . When they do occasion it , they ought always to be avoided . Such are , in ...
... expression . There are in all languages certain el- liptical expressions , which use hath established , and which , therefore , very rarely occasion darkness . When they do occasion it , they ought always to be avoided . Such are , in ...
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... expression like this would in their tongue be intolerable : " You are obliged to say and do all you can . " It must be- " to say and " to do all that which you can , ” — de dire et de faire tout ce que yous savez , But though , in ...
... expression like this would in their tongue be intolerable : " You are obliged to say and do all you can . " It must be- " to say and " to do all that which you can , ” — de dire et de faire tout ce que yous savez , But though , in ...
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... expression is therefore defective , and ought to have been , " He is inspired with a true sense of the digni- ty , or of the importance of that function . " - " You ought to contemn all the wit in the world against “ you † . ” As the ...
... expression is therefore defective , and ought to have been , " He is inspired with a true sense of the digni- ty , or of the importance of that function . " - " You ought to contemn all the wit in the world against “ you † . ” As the ...
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