The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Band 1A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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... admits no higher qualities than purity and perspicuity . These were therefore his highest aim . The best ornaments out of place are not only unbe- coming but offensive . Nor can any thing be farther from his thoughts than to pretend to ...
... admits no higher qualities than purity and perspicuity . These were therefore his highest aim . The best ornaments out of place are not only unbe- coming but offensive . Nor can any thing be farther from his thoughts than to pretend to ...
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... admit so narrow a scruti- ny as would be necessary for a perfect knowledge of the several parts . Every thing that is an object of taste , sculpture , painting , music , architecture , and gar- dening , as well as poetry and eloquence ...
... admit so narrow a scruti- ny as would be necessary for a perfect knowledge of the several parts . Every thing that is an object of taste , sculpture , painting , music , architecture , and gar- dening , as well as poetry and eloquence ...
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... admits only of one of these ends as the principal . Nevertheless , in discoursing on a subject , many things may be ... admit metaphor and comparison , but not the bolder and more striking figures , as that called vision or fiction ...
... admits only of one of these ends as the principal . Nevertheless , in discoursing on a subject , many things may be ... admit metaphor and comparison , but not the bolder and more striking figures , as that called vision or fiction ...
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... admit an ad- dress to the passions , which , as it never fails to disturb the operation of the intellectual faculty , must be re- garded by every intelligent hearer as foreign , at least , if not insidious . It is obvious , that either ...
... admit an ad- dress to the passions , which , as it never fails to disturb the operation of the intellectual faculty , must be re- garded by every intelligent hearer as foreign , at least , if not insidious . It is obvious , that either ...
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... admits also the like distribution , we need only recur to the diffe- * To this black catalogue , an ancient Pagan of Athens or of Rome would have added adultery , but the modern refinements of us Christians , ( if without profanation we ...
... admits also the like distribution , we need only recur to the diffe- * To this black catalogue , an ancient Pagan of Athens or of Rome would have added adultery , but the modern refinements of us Christians , ( if without profanation we ...
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