The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 2A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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... serving the purposes of the soul , it is at the same time capable of one peculiar excellence as a visible object . The ex- cellence I mean , is beauty , which evidently implies more than what results from the fitness of the several ...
... serving the purposes of the soul , it is at the same time capable of one peculiar excellence as a visible object . The ex- cellence I mean , is beauty , which evidently implies more than what results from the fitness of the several ...
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... serve sufficiently to exemplify more than one of them . The first is from Bolingbroke's Philo- sophy : " If we are ... serves to no purpose in philosophy , whatever it may do in theo- logy ; and is still less comprehensible , than the hy ...
... serve sufficiently to exemplify more than one of them . The first is from Bolingbroke's Philo- sophy : " If we are ... serves to no purpose in philosophy , whatever it may do in theo- logy ; and is still less comprehensible , than the hy ...
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... served to be equivocal : " I am persuaded that neither " death nor life - shall be able to separate us from the " love of God * " By the love of God , say interpre- ters , may be understood , either God's love to us , or our love to God ...
... served to be equivocal : " I am persuaded that neither " death nor life - shall be able to separate us from the " love of God * " By the love of God , say interpre- ters , may be understood , either God's love to us , or our love to God ...
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... serves either as a copulative to synony- mous words , or as a disjunctive of different things . If , therefore , the reader should not know that Zoroaster and Zerdusht mean the same person , he will mistake the sense . In coupling ...
... serves either as a copulative to synony- mous words , or as a disjunctive of different things . If , therefore , the reader should not know that Zoroaster and Zerdusht mean the same person , he will mistake the sense . In coupling ...
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... serve merely for the illustration of the sub- ject , by pointing out either some property or some cir- cumstance belonging to it , leaving it , however , to be understood in its full extent . Of this kind are the fol- lowing examples ...
... serve merely for the illustration of the sub- ject , by pointing out either some property or some cir- cumstance belonging to it , leaving it , however , to be understood in its full extent . Of this kind are the fol- lowing examples ...
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