The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 2A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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... language , is , as hath been evinced already * , reputable , national , and present use , in that language . BUT it is with the expression as with the sentiment , it is not enough to the orator that both be true . A sentence may be a ...
... language , is , as hath been evinced already * , reputable , national , and present use , in that language . BUT it is with the expression as with the sentiment , it is not enough to the orator that both be true . A sentence may be a ...
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... language and thought , like body and soul , are made to correspond , and the qualities of the one exactly to co - operate with those of the other . But though the perfection of the body consists , as was formerly observed † , in its ...
... language and thought , like body and soul , are made to correspond , and the qualities of the one exactly to co - operate with those of the other . But though the perfection of the body consists , as was formerly observed † , in its ...
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... language were capable of absolute per- fection , which it evidently is not ; if words and things could be rendered ... languages that ever were , are , or will be in the world . GRAMMATICAL purity , in every tongue , conduceth greatly to ...
... language were capable of absolute per- fection , which it evidently is not ; if words and things could be rendered ... languages that ever were , are , or will be in the world . GRAMMATICAL purity , in every tongue , conduceth greatly to ...
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... 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 be adopted . Sect . Ì . The obscure .... Part ...
... 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 be adopted . Sect . Ì . The obscure .... Part ...
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... language , always weakens the effect which the thoughts were intended to produce in the mind . By perspicuity , " as Quintilian justly observes , " care “ is taken , not that the hearer may understand , if he will ; but that he must ...
... language , always weakens the effect which the thoughts were intended to produce in the mind . By perspicuity , " as Quintilian justly observes , " care “ is taken , not that the hearer may understand , if he will ; but that he must ...
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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