The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 2A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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... translation of the Bible : " I will have mercy , and not sacrifice * . " The expression commonly denotes , " I will exercise mercy ; " whereas it is in this place employed to sig- nify " I require others to exercise it . " The sentiment ...
... translation of the Bible : " I will have mercy , and not sacrifice * . " The expression commonly denotes , " I will exercise mercy ; " whereas it is in this place employed to sig- nify " I require others to exercise it . " The sentiment ...
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... translated " an angel of the God , " or , " -of that " God , whose I am , and whom I serve ‡ . " For though the term god in strict propriety can be applied only to one , and may therefore be thought to stand on the same footing with ...
... translated " an angel of the God , " or , " -of that " God , whose I am , and whom I serve ‡ . " For though the term god in strict propriety can be applied only to one , and may therefore be thought to stand on the same footing with ...
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George Campbell. 66 Of perspicuity . 66 can rarely be translated by an equivocal word , it is very easy , when two languages have a considerable degree of similarity in their structure and analogy , to transfer an ambiguity from one to ...
George Campbell. 66 Of perspicuity . 66 can rarely be translated by an equivocal word , it is very easy , when two languages have a considerable degree of similarity in their structure and analogy , to transfer an ambiguity from one to ...
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... translate it . On the first supposition , " Lisias , speaking of his friends , promised to his father , never to abandon " them . " On the second supposition , " Lisias , speak- ing of his father's friends , promised to his father , ne ...
... translate it . On the first supposition , " Lisias , speaking of his friends , promised to his father , never to abandon " them . " On the second supposition , " Lisias , speak- ing of his father's friends , promised to his father , ne ...
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... translation of a French book † , as there is no example which I can re- member at present in any book written originally in our own language : " Nature , " says this writer , “ in " herself is unseemly , and he who copies her servilely ...
... translation of a French book † , as there is no example which I can re- member at present in any book written originally in our own language : " Nature , " says this writer , “ in " herself is unseemly , and he who copies her servilely ...
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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