The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Band 1A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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... 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 an exemption from such positive ...
... 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 an exemption from such positive ...
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... purity The barbarism · 337 · 343 · 346 Part I. By the use of obsolete words . ib . Part II . By the use of new words ... 347 Part III . By the use of good words new - modelled .... 353 SECT . II . The solecism .... • · 363 SECT . III ...
... purity The barbarism · 337 · 343 · 346 Part I. By the use of obsolete words . ib . Part II . By the use of new words ... 347 Part III . By the use of good words new - modelled .... 353 SECT . II . The solecism .... • · 363 SECT . III ...
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... purity ; that is , that the words employed belong to the language , and that they be construed in the man- ner , and used in the signification , which custom hath rendered necessary for conveying the sense . The o- rator requires also ...
... purity ; that is , that the words employed belong to the language , and that they be construed in the man- ner , and used in the signification , which custom hath rendered necessary for conveying the sense . The o- rator requires also ...
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... purity , is the commonest . The faulty idioms do not jar more with true English , than they do with one another ; so that , in order to our being satisfied of the truth of the ap- parent paradox , it is requisite only that we remember ...
... purity , is the commonest . The faulty idioms do not jar more with true English , than they do with one another ; so that , in order to our being satisfied of the truth of the ap- parent paradox , it is requisite only that we remember ...
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... purity ; all its other qualities have their foun- dation in this . The great standard of purity is use , whose essential properties , as regarding language , have been considered and explained in the preceding chapter . But before I ...
... purity ; all its other qualities have their foun- dation in this . The great standard of purity is use , whose essential properties , as regarding language , have been considered and explained in the preceding chapter . But before I ...
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