The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 2A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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... principles and their house - hold Gods . I am , gentlemen , gratefully yours . HENRY A. WISE . To Messrs . J. D. Townes , P. Durkin , Jno . Bragg , P. C. Spencer , W. Robertson and Jabez Smith - Committee . نہیں THE PHILOSOPHY OF ...
... principles and their house - hold Gods . I am , gentlemen , gratefully yours . HENRY A. WISE . To Messrs . J. D. Townes , P. Durkin , Jno . Bragg , P. C. Spencer , W. Robertson and Jabez Smith - Committee . نہیں THE PHILOSOPHY OF ...
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... principles ... The extensive usefulness of perspicuity When is obscurity apposite , if ever it be appo- SECT . II . CHAP . VIII . SECT . I. SECT . II . Objections answered CHAP . IX . site , and what kind ? ... May there not be an ...
... principles ... The extensive usefulness of perspicuity When is obscurity apposite , if ever it be appo- SECT . II . CHAP . VIII . SECT . I. SECT . II . Objections answered CHAP . IX . site , and what kind ? ... May there not be an ...
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... principles of their art , it is admitted , that the use of such terms may be not only convenient , but even necessary . It is allowa- ble also in ridicule , if used sparingly , as in comedy and romance . 66 PART VII .... From long ...
... principles of their art , it is admitted , that the use of such terms may be not only convenient , but even necessary . It is allowa- ble also in ridicule , if used sparingly , as in comedy and romance . 66 PART VII .... From long ...
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... principle by which we are influenced . The accusative of the ac- tive verb is one chief object of attention in a sentence ; the regimen of that accusative hath but a secondary value ; it is regarded only as explanatory of the for- mer ...
... principle by which we are influenced . The accusative of the ac- tive verb is one chief object of attention in a sentence ; the regimen of that accusative hath but a secondary value ; it is regarded only as explanatory of the for- mer ...
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... principles of the schoolmen ; if that can be called principles which consists merely in words . According to them , what Pope says hyperbolically of the tran- sient duration and narrow range of man , is a literal description of the ...
... principles of the schoolmen ; if that can be called principles which consists merely in words . According to them , what Pope says hyperbolically of the tran- sient duration and narrow range of man , is a literal description of the ...
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