The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 2A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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... perhaps it will be thought charge- able with redundancy at the same time . More plain- ly thus , " You ought to contemn all the wit that can " be employed against you . " - " He talks all the way " up ‡ . ' 66 66 up stairs to a visit ...
... perhaps it will be thought charge- able with redundancy at the same time . More plain- ly thus , " You ought to contemn all the wit that can " be employed against you . " - " He talks all the way " up ‡ . ' 66 66 up stairs to a visit ...
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... perhaps is clear to the generality of readers , a writer will be apt inad- vertently to fall into it in other instances , where the meaning is not clear , nay , where most readers will be misled . This too common idiom may be avoided ...
... perhaps is clear to the generality of readers , a writer will be apt inad- vertently to fall into it in other instances , where the meaning is not clear , nay , where most readers will be misled . This too common idiom may be avoided ...
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... perhaps be traced ; but in all such cases we may be said more properly to divine what the author would say , than to understand what he says ; and therefore all such sentences deserve to be ranked among the unintelli- gible . If a ...
... perhaps be traced ; but in all such cases we may be said more properly to divine what the author would say , than to understand what he says ; and therefore all such sentences deserve to be ranked among the unintelli- gible . If a ...
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... perhaps conclude , that the author intended to say , " that the rank among these politicians , was determined by the opinion generally entertained of the rank in point of gallan- " try and fashion that each of them had attained . " But ...
... perhaps conclude , that the author intended to say , " that the rank among these politicians , was determined by the opinion generally entertained of the rank in point of gallan- " try and fashion that each of them had attained . " But ...
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... perhaps , in this species of composition , the most eminent of all that have written in the English language : " If the " savour of things lies cross to honesty , if the fancy " be florid , and the appetite high towards the subal ...
... perhaps , in this species of composition , the most eminent of all that have written in the English language : " If the " savour of things lies cross to honesty , if the fancy " be florid , and the appetite high towards the subal ...
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