The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 2A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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... LIBRARY VEIRI TAS ( Class of 1814 ) President of Harvard College " Preference being given to works in the Intellectual and Moral Sciences " HON . HENRY A. WISE . - On passing through. FROM THE BEQUEST OF JAMES WALKER. 9378.42.2.
... LIBRARY VEIRI TAS ( Class of 1814 ) President of Harvard College " Preference being given to works in the Intellectual and Moral Sciences " HON . HENRY A. WISE . - On passing through. FROM THE BEQUEST OF JAMES WALKER. 9378.42.2.
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... given on any day convenient to " myself , which you did me the honor to present in person this morning . I arrived here a few days since , and have been delayed in passing to the White Sulphur Springs by the kindness of friends ...
... given on any day convenient to " myself , which you did me the honor to present in person this morning . I arrived here a few days since , and have been delayed in passing to the White Sulphur Springs by the kindness of friends ...
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... given will suffice to specify the obscurities in style which arise from deficiency . The same evil may also be occasioned by excess . But as this almost invariably offends against vivacity , and on- ly sometimes produceth darkness ...
... given will suffice to specify the obscurities in style which arise from deficiency . The same evil may also be occasioned by excess . But as this almost invariably offends against vivacity , and on- ly sometimes produceth darkness ...
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... given alike to all . It would there- fore be equally faulty here to adopt such an arrange- ment as would make a reader conceive them to be different . In cases wherein the article is not used , the place of the substantive ought to show ...
... given alike to all . It would there- fore be equally faulty here to adopt such an arrange- ment as would make a reader conceive them to be different . In cases wherein the article is not used , the place of the substantive ought to show ...
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... given . It was observed , that a speaker may not only express himself obscurely , and so convey his meaning imper- fectly to the mind of the hearer , that he may not on- + Construction louche . * Guardian , No. 10 . Sect III . The ...
... given . It was observed , that a speaker may not only express himself obscurely , and so convey his meaning imper- fectly to the mind of the hearer , that he may not on- + Construction louche . * Guardian , No. 10 . Sect III . The ...
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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