The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 2A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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... sort that the rule is limited . Custom with them hath extended it to innumerable cases , wherein there is no necessity from construction . With us it is enough to say , " She was robbed of her clothes and jewels . " With them the ...
... sort that the rule is limited . Custom with them hath extended it to innumerable cases , wherein there is no necessity from construction . With us it is enough to say , " She was robbed of her clothes and jewels . " With them the ...
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... sort from their writings . They would have said , " Lisias gave a promise to his father in these words , I will " never abandon my friends , " if they were his own friends of whom he spoke ; " your friends , " if they were his father's ...
... sort from their writings . They would have said , " Lisias gave a promise to his father in these words , I will " never abandon my friends , " if they were his own friends of whom he spoke ; " your friends , " if they were his father's ...
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... sort , but rather worse . Hundred cannot regularly be understood between the adjective two and its substan- tive pounds . Besides , the indefinite article , a cannot properly express one side of the alternative , and sup ply the place ...
... sort , but rather worse . Hundred cannot regularly be understood between the adjective two and its substan- tive pounds . Besides , the indefinite article , a cannot properly express one side of the alternative , and sup ply the place ...
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... sort of half - formed thoughts , which we sometimes find writers impatient to give the world , before they themselves have been fully posses- sed of them . Now if the writer himself perceive con- fusedly and imperfectly the sentiments ...
... sort of half - formed thoughts , which we sometimes find writers impatient to give the world , before they themselves have been fully posses- sed of them . Now if the writer himself perceive con- fusedly and imperfectly the sentiments ...
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... sort , favourable or unfavourable , true or false , but in general an opinion of gallantry and fashion , which contains no definite expression of any mean- ing . With the joint assistance of the context , reflec- tion , and conjecture ...
... sort , favourable or unfavourable , true or false , but in general an opinion of gallantry and fashion , which contains no definite expression of any mean- ing . With the joint assistance of the context , reflec- tion , and conjecture ...
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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