The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 2A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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... respect and approbation . I hardly dare decline to name a day for the cloth to be spread around whose board we should learn to know each other better and pledge to be better Whigs than we now are , even in the day of our Country's trial ...
... respect and approbation . I hardly dare decline to name a day for the cloth to be spread around whose board we should learn to know each other better and pledge to be better Whigs than we now are , even in the day of our Country's trial ...
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... 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- ceptible as an audible object ...
... 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- ceptible as an audible object ...
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... respect it resembles grammatical purity , of which I have already treated , but it is not in this respect only that it resembles it . Both are best illustrated by shewing the different ways wherein they may be lost . It is for these ...
... respect it resembles grammatical purity , of which I have already treated , but it is not in this respect only that it resembles it . Both are best illustrated by shewing the different ways wherein they may be lost . It is for these ...
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... respect of it speak unexception- ably , and yet speak obscurely , or ambiguously ; and though we cannot say , that a man may speak proper- ly , and at the same time speak unintelligibly , yet this Sect . I. The obscure .... Part I. From ...
... respect of it speak unexception- ably , and yet speak obscurely , or ambiguously ; and though we cannot say , that a man may speak proper- ly , and at the same time speak unintelligibly , yet this Sect . I. The obscure .... Part I. From ...
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... respect + . " The same fault here renders a very short sentence at once obscure , inelegant , and unmusical . The like use of the pronoun they in the following sentence , al- most occasions an ambiguity : " They were persons of " such ...
... respect + . " The same fault here renders a very short sentence at once obscure , inelegant , and unmusical . The like use of the pronoun they in the following sentence , al- most occasions an ambiguity : " They were persons of " such ...
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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