The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Band 1George Ramsay & Company, 1808 |
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... compared , with a view to their different advantages in respect of eloquence . SECT . I. In regard to the speaker . - - " SECT . II . In regard to the persons addressed . SECT . III . In regard to the subject . SECT . IV . In regard to ...
... compared , with a view to their different advantages in respect of eloquence . SECT . I. In regard to the speaker . - - " SECT . II . In regard to the persons addressed . SECT . III . In regard to the subject . SECT . IV . In regard to ...
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... compared more justly to that variety which takes place in the vegetable kingdom , than to the uni- formity which obtains universally in the animal world ; for , as to the anomalous race of zoophytes , I do not comprehend them in the ...
... compared more justly to that variety which takes place in the vegetable kingdom , than to the uni- formity which obtains universally in the animal world ; for , as to the anomalous race of zoophytes , I do not comprehend them in the ...
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... compared with that which results from the knowledge of the foundations of the art , and of what has been , not unfitly , styled arithmetic uni- versal . It may be justly said , that , without some portion of this knowledge , the ...
... compared with that which results from the knowledge of the foundations of the art , and of what has been , not unfitly , styled arithmetic uni- versal . It may be justly said , that , without some portion of this knowledge , the ...
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... comparing their effects , general remarks are made , which serve as so many rules for directing future practice ; and from comparing such general re- marks together , others still more general are de- duced . A few individual instances ...
... comparing their effects , general remarks are made , which serve as so many rules for directing future practice ; and from comparing such general re- marks together , others still more general are de- duced . A few individual instances ...
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... compared are what with dialecticians would come under the deno- mination of disparates , being such as can be rank- ed under no common genus . Of this I shall sub- join an example from Young , Health chiefly keeps an Atheist in the dark ...
... compared are what with dialecticians would come under the deno- mination of disparates , being such as can be rank- ed under no common genus . Of this I shall sub- join an example from Young , Health chiefly keeps an Atheist in the dark ...
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Seite 36 - Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux. Now awful beauty puts on all its arms ; The fair each moment rises in her charms, Repairs her smiles, awakens every grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face : Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes.
Seite 35 - And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box.
Seite 35 - A heavenly image in the glass appears, To that she bends, to that her eyes she rears ; The inferior priestess, at her altar's side, Trembling begins the sacred rites of pride.
Seite 412 - It celebrates the church of England, as the most perfect of all others, in discipline and doctrine ; it advances no opinion they reject, nor condemns any they receive.
Seite 413 - We next went to the school of languages, where three professors sat in consultation upon improving that of their own country. The first project was to shorten discourse by cutting polysyllables into one, and leaving out verbs and participles, because in reality all things imaginable are but nouns.
Seite 73 - So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music: Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself, and scorn'd his spirit That could be mov'd to smile at any thing.
Seite 284 - And went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn and took care of him.
Seite 14 - All the ends of speaking are reducible to four ; every speech being intended to enlighten the understanding, to please the imagination, to move the passions, or to influence the will.
Seite 164 - The coolest reasoner always in persuading, addresseth himself to the passions some way or other. This he cannot avoid doing, if he speak to the purpose. To make me believe, it is enough to show me that things are so ; to make me act, it is necessary to show that the action will answer some End.
Seite 61 - And Milo-like surveys his arms and hands ; Then, sighing, thus, " And am I now three-score? Ah why, ye gods, should two and two make four?