Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles LettresThomas A. Ronalds, 1814 - 544 pages |
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... neral interests of mankind . After spending eleven years in assiduous study at this celebrated University , he was licensed to preach the Gospel by the Presbytery of Edinburgh , on the 21st of October 1741. The brilliancy of his acade ...
... neral interests of mankind . After spending eleven years in assiduous study at this celebrated University , he was licensed to preach the Gospel by the Presbytery of Edinburgh , on the 21st of October 1741. The brilliancy of his acade ...
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... neral ; not of the sublime in particular . For of these five heads , only the two first have any peculiar relation to the sub- lime ; boldness and grandeur in the thoughts , and , in some instances , the pathetic , or strong exertions ...
... neral ; not of the sublime in particular . For of these five heads , only the two first have any peculiar relation to the sub- lime ; boldness and grandeur in the thoughts , and , in some instances , the pathetic , or strong exertions ...
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... neral principles ; it is time now to make the application of our chief subject . If the question be put , To what class of those pleasures of taste which I have enumerated , that plea- sure is to be referred , which we receive from ...
... neral principles ; it is time now to make the application of our chief subject . If the question be put , To what class of those pleasures of taste which I have enumerated , that plea- sure is to be referred , which we receive from ...
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... neral , may be termed an imitative art . The subject of the poet ( as Dr Gerard has shewn in the appendix to his Essay on Taste ) is intended to be an imitation , not of things really existing , but of the course of nature ; that is , a ...
... neral , may be termed an imitative art . The subject of the poet ( as Dr Gerard has shewn in the appendix to his Essay on Taste ) is intended to be an imitation , not of things really existing , but of the course of nature ; that is , a ...
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... neral theory . * Vid . Plat . in Cratylo . " Nomina verbaque non posita fortuito , sed quadam vi et ratione naturæ facta esse , P. Nigidius in Grammaticis Commentariis docet ; rem sane in philosophiæ dissertationibus celebrem . In eam ...
... neral theory . * Vid . Plat . in Cratylo . " Nomina verbaque non posita fortuito , sed quadam vi et ratione naturæ facta esse , P. Nigidius in Grammaticis Commentariis docet ; rem sane in philosophiæ dissertationibus celebrem . In eam ...
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