The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 2A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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... 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 . Objections answered ...
... 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 . Objections answered ...
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... speak so as to be understood , or he speaks to no purpose . If he do not propose to convey certain sentiments into the minds of his hearers , by the aid of signs intelligible to them , he may as well declaim before them in an unknown ...
... speak so as to be understood , or he speaks to no purpose . If he do not propose to convey certain sentiments into the minds of his hearers , by the aid of signs intelligible to them , he may as well declaim before them in an unknown ...
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... speak grammatically would , in that case , convey infallibly and perspicuously the full meaning of the speaker , if ... speak unexception- ably , and yet speak obscurely , or ambiguously ; and though we cannot say , that a man may speak ...
... speak grammatically would , in that case , convey infallibly and perspicuously the full meaning of the speaker , if ... speak unexception- ably , and yet speak obscurely , or ambiguously ; and though we cannot say , that a man may speak ...
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... speak- er from the hearer , than is absolutely necessary ? It ought to be remembered , that whatever application we must give to the words , is , in fact , so much de- ducted from what we owe to the sentiments . sides , the effort that ...
... speak- er from the hearer , than is absolutely necessary ? It ought to be remembered , that whatever application we must give to the words , is , in fact , so much de- ducted from what we owe to the sentiments . sides , the effort that ...
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... speaking to heathens ; and this cir- cumstance gives an additional propriety to the article . 66 FOR an instance of ambiguity in the construction of the pronoun his , I shall borrow an example from a French grammarian * ; for though an ...
... speaking to heathens ; and this cir- cumstance gives an additional propriety to the article . 66 FOR an instance of ambiguity in the construction of the pronoun his , I shall borrow an example from a French grammarian * ; for though an ...
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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