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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Page 37
... truth , " and fubjected to the yoke of the faith . 66 " Angels of the highest order in the hierarchy , fpirits appointed by Providence to guard this great “ foul , tell us , how vaft was the joy of the church " of heaven at the ...
... truth , " and fubjected to the yoke of the faith . 66 " Angels of the highest order in the hierarchy , fpirits appointed by Providence to guard this great “ foul , tell us , how vaft was the joy of the church " of heaven at the ...
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... Truth is di- " ftinguished on account of the great art with which it fets abftracted truths in their true light , joins " them together , and adds new ftrength to them " from their union . The diction is not only pure " and correct ...
... Truth is di- " ftinguished on account of the great art with which it fets abftracted truths in their true light , joins " them together , and adds new ftrength to them " from their union . The diction is not only pure " and correct ...
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... truth , juftness of thoughts , and proofs ; which are , as it were , its natural nourishment ; and prefents to the latter , beauty , delicacy , the grace of ex- preffions and turns , which belong more peculiarly to it . II . Some people ...
... truth , juftness of thoughts , and proofs ; which are , as it were , its natural nourishment ; and prefents to the latter , beauty , delicacy , the grace of ex- preffions and turns , which belong more peculiarly to it . II . Some people ...
Page 68
... truth , as if he had been an inhabitent of Plato's imaginary common wealth . It would not have been so , says An- tony to Craffus , in one of Cicero's dialogues , had you defended him ; not after the manner of the phi- lofophers , but ...
... truth , as if he had been an inhabitent of Plato's imaginary common wealth . It would not have been so , says An- tony to Craffus , in one of Cicero's dialogues , had you defended him ; not after the manner of the phi- lofophers , but ...
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... truth alone , in whatsoever manner it appears , is always eftimable ; in fine , that an ora- tor may bestow fome care upon words , but must ap- ply his chief attention to things . We must likewife make youth obferve , that the thoughts ...
... truth alone , in whatsoever manner it appears , is always eftimable ; in fine , that an ora- tor may bestow fome care upon words , but must ap- ply his chief attention to things . We must likewife make youth obferve , that the thoughts ...
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