American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ; Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 5Mitchell, Ames and White, 1819 |
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... figure of syn- tax , wherein one or more words are not expressed ; and from this deficiency it has got the name ellipsis . ELLIPSIS , in rhetoric , a figure nearly allied to preterition , when the orator , through transport of passion ...
... figure of syn- tax , wherein one or more words are not expressed ; and from this deficiency it has got the name ellipsis . ELLIPSIS , in rhetoric , a figure nearly allied to preterition , when the orator , through transport of passion ...
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... figures , to give strength and dignity to the whole . ELOGY , a praise or panegyric bestow . ed on any person or thing , in considera- tion of its merit . The beauty of elogy Consists in an expressive brevity . Elogi- tams should not ...
... figures , to give strength and dignity to the whole . ELOGY , a praise or panegyric bestow . ed on any person or thing , in considera- tion of its merit . The beauty of elogy Consists in an expressive brevity . Elogi- tams should not ...
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... figures painted or cut meta- phorically , expressing some action , with reflections underneath , which , in some measure , explain the sense of the device , and at the same time instruct us in some moral truth , or other matter of know ...
... figures painted or cut meta- phorically , expressing some action , with reflections underneath , which , in some measure , explain the sense of the device , and at the same time instruct us in some moral truth , or other matter of know ...
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... figures are more or less prominent , they are said to be in alto , mezzo , or basso relievo ; or high , mean , or low relief . EMBOTHRIUM , in botany , a genus of the Tetrandria Monogynia class and or- der . Natural order of Proteæ ...
... figures are more or less prominent , they are said to be in alto , mezzo , or basso relievo ; or high , mean , or low relief . EMBOTHRIUM , in botany , a genus of the Tetrandria Monogynia class and or- der . Natural order of Proteæ ...
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... figures represented thereon , in low relievo . See RELIEVO and SCULPTURE . Enchasing is practised only on hollow thin ... figure from within side , so as to stand out prominent from the plane or surface of the metal . In order to this ...
... figures represented thereon , in low relievo . See RELIEVO and SCULPTURE . Enchasing is practised only on hollow thin ... figure from within side , so as to stand out prominent from the plane or surface of the metal . In order to this ...
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