The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 2A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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... 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 . There are some ...
... 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 . There are some ...
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... imagine this the object talked to ; but as that cannot be the case , the expression is rather to be accounted lame , there being no verb in it with which the words to a visit can be construed . More Guardian , No. 1g . + Ibid , No. 53 ...
... imagine this the object talked to ; but as that cannot be the case , the expression is rather to be accounted lame , there being no verb in it with which the words to a visit can be construed . More Guardian , No. 1g . + Ibid , No. 53 ...
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... imagine , on hearing the first part of the sentence , that Will is to confront all the ladies- though afterwards we find it necessary to construe this clause with the following verb . This confusion is removed at once , by repeat- ing ...
... imagine , on hearing the first part of the sentence , that Will is to confront all the ladies- though afterwards we find it necessary to construe this clause with the following verb . This confusion is removed at once , by repeat- ing ...
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... imagine , is also an extreme . If the renthesis be short , and if it be introduced in a proper place , it will not in the least hurt the clearness , and may add both to the vivacity and to the energy of the sentence . Others again ...
... imagine , is also an extreme . If the renthesis be short , and if it be introduced in a proper place , it will not in the least hurt the clearness , and may add both to the vivacity and to the energy of the sentence . Others again ...
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... imagine it would be better to say , " The spiritual " lords and the temporal . " - On the contrary , where- ever the two adjectives are expressive of qualities be- longing to a subject , not only specifically , but indivi- dually the ...
... imagine it would be better to say , " The spiritual " lords and the temporal . " - On the contrary , where- ever the two adjectives are expressive of qualities be- longing to a subject , not only specifically , but indivi- dually 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