The Philosophy of RhetoricHarper & Brothers, 1859 - 435 pages |
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... give a designation to the kind . This particularity in form , to adopt an expression of the naturalists , constitutes only a variety , and not a different species . Now , though a considerable proficiency in the practice of the ...
... give a designation to the kind . This particularity in form , to adopt an expression of the naturalists , constitutes only a variety , and not a different species . Now , though a considerable proficiency in the practice of the ...
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... give to his expression . In the latter of these the ancients excel ; in the former , the moderns . Demosthenes and Cicero , not to say Homer and Virgil , to this day remain unrivalled , and in all antiquity , Lucian himself not excepted ...
... give to his expression . In the latter of these the ancients excel ; in the former , the moderns . Demosthenes and Cicero , not to say Homer and Virgil , to this day remain unrivalled , and in all antiquity , Lucian himself not excepted ...
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... the same predicament . An example of this I shall give from the same hand . * Hudibras , part ii . , canto 2 . Ibid . , part i . , canto 1 . " For when the restless Greeks sat down So many THE PHILOSOPHY OF RHETORIC . 33.
... the same predicament . An example of this I shall give from the same hand . * Hudibras , part ii . , canto 2 . Ibid . , part i . , canto 1 . " For when the restless Greeks sat down So many THE PHILOSOPHY OF RHETORIC . 33.
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... give it entire . " And now unveil'd , the toilet stands display'd , Each silver vase in mystic order laid . First , robed in white , the nymph intent adores , With head uncover'd , the cosmotic powers . A heavenly image in the glass ...
... give it entire . " And now unveil'd , the toilet stands display'd , Each silver vase in mystic order laid . First , robed in white , the nymph intent adores , With head uncover'd , the cosmotic powers . A heavenly image in the glass ...
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... give a few speci- mens that will serve to mark some of its principal varieties . To illustrate all would be impossible . The first I shall exemplify is where there is an apparent contrariety in the thing she exhibits as connected . This ...
... give a few speci- mens that will serve to mark some of its principal varieties . To illustrate all would be impossible . The first I shall exemplify is where there is an apparent contrariety in the thing she exhibits as connected . This ...
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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.