The Philosophy of RhetoricHarper & Brothers, 1859 - 435 pages |
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... connected with one another , and writ- ten on a subject in the examination of which he has at intervals employed himself for a considerable part of his life . Considered separately , each may justly be termed a whole , and complete in ...
... connected with one another , and writ- ten on a subject in the examination of which he has at intervals employed himself for a considerable part of his life . Considered separately , each may justly be termed a whole , and complete in ...
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... connected . This kind of contrast we have in these lines of Garth : " Then Hydrops next appears among the throng ; Bloated and big she slowly sails along : But like a miser in excess she's poor , And pines for thirst amid her watery ...
... connected . This kind of contrast we have in these lines of Garth : " Then Hydrops next appears among the throng ; Bloated and big she slowly sails along : But like a miser in excess she's poor , And pines for thirst amid her watery ...
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... connecting in some other relation , such as causality or vicinity , objects apparently the most dissimilar and heterogeneous ; which incongruous affin Rape of the Lock , canto 2 . † Part iii . , canto 3 . ity , we may remark by the way ...
... connecting in some other relation , such as causality or vicinity , objects apparently the most dissimilar and heterogeneous ; which incongruous affin Rape of the Lock , canto 2 . † Part iii . , canto 3 . ity , we may remark by the way ...
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... connected with association . And if so , merely to account for the association , is in no case to account for the belief with which it is attended . Nay , admitting his plea , [ page 86 ] , that , by the principle of association , not ...
... connected with association . And if so , merely to account for the association , is in no case to account for the belief with which it is attended . Nay , admitting his plea , [ page 86 ] , that , by the principle of association , not ...
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... connected . All reasoning necessarily sup- poses that there are certain principles in which we must ac- quiesce , and beyond which we cannot go ; principles clearly discernible by their own light , which can derive no additional ...
... connected . All reasoning necessarily sup- poses that there are certain principles in which we must ac- quiesce , and beyond which we cannot go ; principles clearly discernible by their own light , which can derive no additional ...
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Page 315 - For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell, Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 51 - I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly...
Page 355 - That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.
Page 35 - Eurus and Auster, and the dreadful force Of Boreas, that congeals the Cronian waves, Tumultuous enter with dire chilling blasts, Portending agues. Thus a well-fraught ship, Long sail'd secure, or through th...
Page 369 - Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock : and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house ; and it fell not : for it was founded upon a rock.
Page 20 - H' had hard words ready to show why, And tell what rules he did it by ; Else, when with greatest art he spoke, You'd think he talked like other folk.
Page 385 - The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil ; my lust shall be satisfied upon them ; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Page 295 - Every one knew how laborious the usual method is of attaining to arts and sciences ; whereas by his contrivance, the most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, may write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, law, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.
Page 63 - Men suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.
Page 273 - For thee we dim the eyes, and stuff the head With all such reading as was never read : For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, goddess, and about it : So spins the silkworm small its slender store, And labours till it clouds itself all o'er.