The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 2A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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... 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 , without the least expectation of this manifesta- tion of regard , or a greeting like this ...
... 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 , without the least expectation of this manifesta- tion of regard , or a greeting like this ...
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... person may be much inferior in this respect to those of another , though e- qually fit for all the purposes of vision . The like may be said of every other feature . Analogous to this there is an excellence of which language is sus ...
... person may be much inferior in this respect to those of another , though e- qually fit for all the purposes of vision . The like may be said of every other feature . Analogous to this there is an excellence of which language is sus ...
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... person whom he addresses , there is a defect in the expression , though 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 ...
... person whom he addresses , there is a defect in the expression , though 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 ...
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... persons of " such moderate intellects , even before they were im- paired by their passion . " - The use made of the pronoun it in the example subjoined , is liable to the 66 Guardian , No. 13 . + Ib . No. 73 . Spect . No. 30 . Sect . I ...
... persons of " such moderate intellects , even before they were im- paired by their passion . " - The use made of the pronoun it in the example subjoined , is liable to the 66 Guardian , No. 13 . + Ib . No. 73 . Spect . No. 30 . Sect . I ...
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... person whose affection it is ; sometimes the relation which it bears to its object . Hence this expression of the apostle hath been ob- served to be equivocal : " I am persuaded that neither " death nor life - shall be able to separate ...
... person whose affection it is ; sometimes the relation which it bears to its object . Hence this expression of the apostle hath been ob- served to be equivocal : " I am persuaded that neither " death nor life - shall be able to separate ...
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