The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Band 1A. Constable & Company, 1816 |
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... discover , it implies no presumption to affirm , that we shall never ex- cel them so far in poetry and eloquence , if ever in these respects we come to equal them . The same thing might probably be affirmed in regard to painting ...
... discover , it implies no presumption to affirm , that we shall never ex- cel them so far in poetry and eloquence , if ever in these respects we come to equal them . The same thing might probably be affirmed in regard to painting ...
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... discover to what particular purpose each attempt is adapted , and in what cir- cumstances only to be used . The fourth and last is to canvass those principles in our nature , to which the various attempts are adapted , and by which , in ...
... discover to what particular purpose each attempt is adapted , and in what cir- cumstances only to be used . The fourth and last is to canvass those principles in our nature , to which the various attempts are adapted , and by which , in ...
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... discover , there has been little or no improvement in this respect made by the moderns . The ob- servations and rules transmitted to us from these distinguished names in the learned world , Aris- totle , Cicero , and Quintilian , have ...
... discover , there has been little or no improvement in this respect made by the moderns . The ob- servations and rules transmitted to us from these distinguished names in the learned world , Aris- totle , Cicero , and Quintilian , have ...
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... discover the origin of this defect , and that both from the nature of the thing , and from the customs which obtained among both Greeks and Romans . First , from the nature of the thing , for to persuade pre- supposes in some degree ...
... discover the origin of this defect , and that both from the nature of the thing , and from the customs which obtained among both Greeks and Romans . First , from the nature of the thing , for to persuade pre- supposes in some degree ...
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... discover an unexpected similarity in objects , which , at first sight , appear the most dissimilar and heterogeneous . Thus high and low are coup- led , humble and superb , momentous and trivial , common and extraordinary . Addison ...
... discover an unexpected similarity in objects , which , at first sight , appear the most dissimilar and heterogeneous . Thus high and low are coup- led , humble and superb , momentous and trivial , common and extraordinary . Addison ...
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