The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 2A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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... measure , from their giving the ar- ticle almost invariably to abstracts . Bolingbroke's Dissertation on Parties , Let . 12 . * Psalm xvi . 2 , 3 . Sect . II . The double meaning .... Part II 38 Book II . THE PHILOSOPHY OF.
... measure , from their giving the ar- ticle almost invariably to abstracts . Bolingbroke's Dissertation on Parties , Let . 12 . * Psalm xvi . 2 , 3 . Sect . II . The double meaning .... Part II 38 Book II . THE PHILOSOPHY OF.
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... generic name . I explain myself by an exam- ple : " Both the ecclesiastic and secular powers con- " curred in those measures . ' Here the two adjec- 66 99 Of perspicuity . tives , ecclesiastic and secular , relate Chap . VI . 45 RHETORIC .
... generic name . I explain myself by an exam- ple : " Both the ecclesiastic and secular powers con- " curred in those measures . ' Here the two adjec- 66 99 Of perspicuity . tives , ecclesiastic and secular , relate Chap . VI . 45 RHETORIC .
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... measures ; " or , which is perhaps preferable , " Both the ecclesiastic powers and " the secular concurred in those measures . " The substantive being posterior to the first adjective , and anterior to the second , the second , though ...
... measures ; " or , which is perhaps preferable , " Both the ecclesiastic powers and " the secular concurred in those measures . " The substantive being posterior to the first adjective , and anterior to the second , the second , though ...
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... measure or cadence ; I mean solely that con- nection or relation which comes gradually to subsist among the different words of a language , in the minds of those who speak it , and which is merely consequent on this , that those words ...
... measure or cadence ; I mean solely that con- nection or relation which comes gradually to subsist among the different words of a language , in the minds of those who speak it , and which is merely consequent on this , that those words ...
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... , must in a great measure be abstruse and dark . Let then the dissatis- fied reader deign to bestow on the foregoing observa- VOL . II . G I Why nonsense so often escapes being detected . tions a Chap . VII . 97 RHETORIC .
... , must in a great measure be abstruse and dark . Let then the dissatis- fied reader deign to bestow on the foregoing observa- VOL . II . G I Why nonsense so often escapes being detected . tions a Chap . VII . 97 RHETORIC .
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