The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 2A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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... language , is , as hath been evinced already * , reputable , national , and present use , in that language . But it is with the expression as with the sentiment , it is not enough to the orator that both be true . A sentence may be a ...
... language , is , as hath been evinced already * , reputable , national , and present use , in that language . But it is with the expression as with the sentiment , it is not enough to the orator that both be true . A sentence may be a ...
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... language and thought , like body , and soul , are made to correspond , and the qualities of the one exactly to co - operate with those of the other . But though the perfection of the body consists , as was formerly observed , in its ...
... language and thought , like body , and soul , are made to correspond , and the qualities of the one exactly to co - operate with those of the other . But though the perfection of the body consists , as was formerly observed , in its ...
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... language were capable of absolute per- fection , which it evidently is not ; if words and things could be rendered ... languages that ever were , are , or will be in the world . GRAMMATICAL purity , in every tongue , conduceth greatly to ...
... language were capable of absolute per- fection , which it evidently is not ; if words and things could be rendered ... languages that ever were , are , or will be in the world . GRAMMATICAL purity , in every tongue , conduceth greatly to ...
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... language to excess , and by needless re- petitions have sometimes enervated the expression , their criticisms , when useful in assisting us to shun any obscurity or ambiguity , de- serve to be adopted , " You 66 Sect . I. The obscure ...
... language to excess , and by needless re- petitions have sometimes enervated the expression , their criticisms , when useful in assisting us to shun any obscurity or ambiguity , de- serve to be adopted , " You 66 Sect . I. The obscure ...
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... language , always weakens the effect which the thoughts were intended to produce in the mind . By perspicuity , " as Quintilian justly observes , " care " is taken , not that the hearer may understand , if he will ; but that he must ...
... language , always weakens the effect which the thoughts were intended to produce in the mind . By perspicuity , " as Quintilian justly observes , " care " is taken , not that the hearer may understand , if he will ; but that he must ...
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adjectives adverb ambiguity anapest antithesis antonomasia appear arrangement better catachresis cause Chap choice of words clauses Complex sentences composition conducive to vivacity conjunctions connectives employed connexive consequence considered as sounds contrary copulative denominated denote discourse doth effect ellipsis employed in combining English equivocal example exhibit expression figure former French give hath hearer ideas idiom imagine imitation instance justly kind language Latin manner meaning metaphor metonymy mind modern nature necessary nonsense noun object obscurity observed occasion offences against brevity Paradise Lost particle particular passage periphrasis perspicuity phrases pleonasm preceding preposition principles produce pronoun proper terms properly propriety reason relation remark rendered Sect sense sensible sentiment serve signify signs Simple sentences sometimes speak speaker species Spect spondee style substantive syllables synecdoché Tatler tautology tence ther things thought tion tive tongue translation verb vivacity as depending wherein writer
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Page 312 - And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women.
Page 317 - Peace to all such! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent, and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 383 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
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Page 68 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Page 132 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.