The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 2A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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... present in 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 ...
... present in 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 ...
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... 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 just exhibition , according to the rules of the language , of the thought ...
... 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 just exhibition , according to the rules of the language , of the thought ...
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... France tremble , and yet has * Sentiments of a Church of England Man . + Free Thoughts on the Present State of Affairs , Spectator , No. 456. T. Sect . I. The obscurity .... Part II . From IO Book II . THE PHILOSOPHY OF.
... France tremble , and yet has * Sentiments of a Church of England Man . + Free Thoughts on the Present State of Affairs , Spectator , No. 456. T. Sect . I. The obscurity .... Part II . From IO Book II . THE PHILOSOPHY OF.
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... present . The only species of equivoca- tion that comes under reprehension here , is that which takes place , when an author undesignedly employs an expression susceptible of a sense different from the sense he intends to convey by it ...
... present . The only species of equivoca- tion that comes under reprehension here , is that which takes place , when an author undesignedly employs an expression susceptible of a sense different from the sense he intends to convey by it ...
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... present life and of the future . " The clause , who is born of woman , " in the first example , and " which with contentment is great gain " in the second , point to certain properties in the antecedents , but do find this pious ...
... present life and of the future . " The clause , who is born of woman , " in the first example , and " which with contentment is great gain " in the second , point to certain properties in the antecedents , but do find this pious ...
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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