The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 2A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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... signs , both in speak- ing and in thinking · · The application of the preceding principles ... The extensive usefulness of perspicuity When is obscurity apposite , if ever it be appo- SECT . II . CHAP . VIII . SECT . I. SECT . II ...
... signs , both in speak- ing and in thinking · · The application of the preceding principles ... The extensive usefulness of perspicuity When is obscurity apposite , if ever it be appo- SECT . II . CHAP . VIII . SECT . I. SECT . II ...
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... signs intelligible to them , he may as well declaim before them in an unknown tongue . This prerogative the intellect has above all the other faculties , that , whether it be or not immediately addressed by the speaker , it must be re ...
... signs intelligible to them , he may as well declaim before them in an unknown tongue . This prerogative the intellect has above all the other faculties , that , whether it be or not immediately addressed by the speaker , it must be re ...
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... signs- , " or thus , " who may give more , but cannot give clear- 66 er signs . " It is but seldom that the same pro- noun can be used twice or oftener in the same sen- tence , in reference to different things , without dark , ening the ...
... signs- , " or thus , " who may give more , but cannot give clear- 66 er signs . " It is but seldom that the same pro- noun can be used twice or oftener in the same sen- tence , in reference to different things , without dark , ening the ...
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... signs of com- " plex ideas , " were merely explicative , and that the subject words were to be understood in the utmost la- titude . This could not be the writer's sense , as it would be absurd to affirm of all words , that they are signs ...
... signs of com- " plex ideas , " were merely explicative , and that the subject words were to be understood in the utmost la- titude . This could not be the writer's sense , as it would be absurd to affirm of all words , that they are signs ...
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... signs , both in speaking and in thinking . BEFORE quitting the subject of perspicuity , it will not be amiss to inquire into the cause of this strange phenomenon ; that even a man of discernment should write without meaning , and not be ...
... signs , both in speaking and in thinking . BEFORE quitting the subject of perspicuity , it will not be amiss to inquire into the cause of this strange phenomenon ; that even a man of discernment should write without meaning , and not be ...
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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