Personification and the Use of Abstract Subjects in the Attic Orators and Thukydides, Part 1Johns Hopkins University, 1901 - 49 pages |
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... Familiar personification of vóuos and other legal terms , — of λóyos , —of philosophical and political terms . RHETORICAL PERSONIFICATION , Previous literature . - Personification treated as a species of meta- phor by the ancient ...
... Familiar personification of vóuos and other legal terms , — of λóyos , —of philosophical and political terms . RHETORICAL PERSONIFICATION , Previous literature . - Personification treated as a species of meta- phor by the ancient ...
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Robert Somerville Radford. Finally , an exception must be made also for many familiar con- crete objects which belong to the sphere of every - day life . Cases of the full personification of abstracts remain , and also the general mass ...
Robert Somerville Radford. Finally , an exception must be made also for many familiar con- crete objects which belong to the sphere of every - day life . Cases of the full personification of abstracts remain , and also the general mass ...
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... familiar idiom , τὸ ἔργον αὐτὸ ἐδήλωσε , ' the upshot , the result showed ' ; hence here Konon's death and will showed conclusively , proved to evidence , that he possessed a much smaller fortune than was commonly believed ' . We find ...
... familiar idiom , τὸ ἔργον αὐτὸ ἐδήλωσε , ' the upshot , the result showed ' ; hence here Konon's death and will showed conclusively , proved to evidence , that he possessed a much smaller fortune than was commonly believed ' . We find ...
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... familiar concrete terms which it employs , often with a species of homely personification . ( 2 ) The legal language seen in the free use of vóμos and similar juridical terms . ( 3 ) The learned language occupied with questions of ...
... familiar concrete terms which it employs , often with a species of homely personification . ( 2 ) The legal language seen in the free use of vóμos and similar juridical terms . ( 3 ) The learned language occupied with questions of ...
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... familiar in Greek art and poetry , see especially A. Gerber , 1. 1. , p . 249 ff . Hence the combined influence of the plastic art and the poetic fancy have prepared the way for similar personifications in the more elevated passages of ...
... familiar in Greek art and poetry , see especially A. Gerber , 1. 1. , p . 249 ff . Hence the combined influence of the plastic art and the poetic fancy have prepared the way for similar personifications in the more elevated passages of ...
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