The Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres; Or, An Introduction to Languages, Poetry, Rhetorick, History, Moral Philosophy, Physicks, &c. ...W. Strahan, 1769 |
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... TASTE ; AND INSTRUCTIONS with regard to the ELOQUENCE o . the PULPIT , the BAR , and the STAGE . THE WHOLE ILLUSTRATED With Paffages from the most famous POETS and ORATORS , Ancient and Modern , WITH CRITICAL REMARKS on them . DESIGNED ...
... TASTE ; AND INSTRUCTIONS with regard to the ELOQUENCE o . the PULPIT , the BAR , and the STAGE . THE WHOLE ILLUSTRATED With Paffages from the most famous POETS and ORATORS , Ancient and Modern , WITH CRITICAL REMARKS on them . DESIGNED ...
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... taste , not to observe that the reading of authors is one of the most effential parts of rhetoric , and moft capable of forming the minds of youth . Yet , however good his inclina- tion might be , it was impoffible for him to ftem the ...
... taste , not to observe that the reading of authors is one of the most effential parts of rhetoric , and moft capable of forming the minds of youth . Yet , however good his inclina- tion might be , it was impoffible for him to ftem the ...
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... taste of youth , both for ftudy and compofition . What generally gives the greatest beauty to difcourfes of the demonftrative kind , are defcriptions , parallels , and common places . In order to know all their art and delicacy , we ...
... taste of youth , both for ftudy and compofition . What generally gives the greatest beauty to difcourfes of the demonftrative kind , are defcriptions , parallels , and common places . In order to know all their art and delicacy , we ...
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... taste ; and this is properly the end I pro- pofe in this work . I fhall afterwards proceed to the chief obfervations , which , I think , fhould be made in reading authors ; and conclude this treatife with fome reflections on the ...
... taste ; and this is properly the end I pro- pofe in this work . I fhall afterwards proceed to the chief obfervations , which , I think , fhould be made in reading authors ; and conclude this treatife with fome reflections on the ...
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... taste , but nothing admitted that is either too much forced , or too exceffive in fauces , feasoning , and preparation . m There is another fpecies of writing quite different from the former ; great , rich , grave , and noble ; it is ...
... taste , but nothing admitted that is either too much forced , or too exceffive in fauces , feasoning , and preparation . m There is another fpecies of writing quite different from the former ; great , rich , grave , and noble ; it is ...
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