The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 2A. Constable & Company, 1816 |
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... Speaking and in Thinking , 105 ib . SECT . II . The application of the preceding Principles , 124 CHAP . VIII . The extensive usefulness of Perspicuity , 140 SECT . I. When is obscurity apposite , if ever it be apposite , and what kind ...
... Speaking and in Thinking , 105 ib . SECT . II . The application of the preceding Principles , 124 CHAP . VIII . The extensive usefulness of Perspicuity , 140 SECT . I. When is obscurity apposite , if ever it be apposite , and what kind ...
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... speak of their becoming " both in form and signification passive , and shall " endeavour further to illustrate the rule by ex- " ample . To split , like many other English verbs , " has both an active and a neuter signification ; ac ...
... speak of their becoming " both in form and signification passive , and shall " endeavour further to illustrate the rule by ex- " ample . To split , like many other English verbs , " has both an active and a neuter signification ; ac ...
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... speaking of verbs compounded with a preposition , says expressly , " In English the preposition is more ' frequently placed after the verb , and separate from it , like an adverb ; in which situation it " is no less apt to affect the ...
... speaking of verbs compounded with a preposition , says expressly , " In English the preposition is more ' frequently placed after the verb , and separate from it , like an adverb ; in which situation it " is no less apt to affect the ...
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... speak so as to be understood , or he speaks to no purpose . If he do not propose to convey certain sentiments into the minds of his hearers , by the aid of signs intelligible to them , he may as well declaim before them in an unknown ...
... speak so as to be understood , or he speaks to no purpose . If he do not propose to convey certain sentiments into the minds of his hearers , by the aid of signs intelligible to them , he may as well declaim before them in an unknown ...
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... speak grammatically would , in that case , convey infallibly and perspicuously the full meaning of the speaker , if ... speak unexceptionably , and yet speak obscurely , or ambiguously ; and though we cannot say , that a man may speak ...
... speak grammatically would , in that case , convey infallibly and perspicuously the full meaning of the speaker , if ... speak unexceptionably , and yet speak obscurely , or ambiguously ; and though we cannot say , that a man may speak ...
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