The Philosophy of RhetoricHarper & Brothers, 1859 - 435 pages |
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... Words 195 Part III . By the Use of good Words new modelled 197 SECT . II . The Solecism .. 202 SECT . III . The Impropriety .. 213 Part I. Impropriety in single Words .. ib . Part II . Impropriety in Phrases . 224 CHAP . IV . Some ...
... Words 195 Part III . By the Use of good Words new modelled 197 SECT . II . The Solecism .. 202 SECT . III . The Impropriety .. 213 Part I. Impropriety in single Words .. ib . Part II . Impropriety in Phrases . 224 CHAP . IV . Some ...
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... Words .. ............................................. . 307 SECT . I. Proper Terms ... Words considered as Sounds ... ...... .... 338 Part I. What are articulate Sounds capable of imitating , and in what Degree ? 339 Part II . In what ...
... Words .. ............................................. . 307 SECT . I. Proper Terms ... Words considered as Sounds ... ...... .... 338 Part I. What are articulate Sounds capable of imitating , and in what Degree ? 339 Part II . In what ...
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... words , he proposes either to dis . pel ignorance or to vanquish error . In the one , his aim is their information ... words , or words otherwise disposed , could have been better expressed . latter , argument . By that we are made to 24 ...
... words , he proposes either to dis . pel ignorance or to vanquish error . In the one , his aim is their information ... words , or words otherwise disposed , could have been better expressed . latter , argument . By that we are made to 24 ...
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... words , and , as nearly as the genius of the language in which one writes will permit , to make them correspond to the bound- aries assigned by Nature to the things signified . That the lofty and the vehement , though still ...
... words , and , as nearly as the genius of the language in which one writes will permit , to make them correspond to the bound- aries assigned by Nature to the things signified . That the lofty and the vehement , though still ...
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... word logic in the third line is used ironically . In other words , we have here modes and substances , the affections of the body , and the ex- ercise of reason strangely , but not insignificantly , linked to- gether ; strangely , else ...
... word logic in the third line is used ironically . In other words , we have here modes and substances , the affections of the body , and the ex- ercise of reason strangely , but not insignificantly , linked to- gether ; strangely , else ...
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