The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Band 1A. Constable & Company, 1816 |
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... opinion of this Performance , the Author gave him the first Book for his perusal . Doctor Beattie's Tract is called An Essay on Laughter and Ludicrous Writing . Whilst the Author carefully perused that Essay , it gave him a very ...
... opinion of this Performance , the Author gave him the first Book for his perusal . Doctor Beattie's Tract is called An Essay on Laughter and Ludicrous Writing . Whilst the Author carefully perused that Essay , it gave him a very ...
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... opinion , will create even the smallest difficulty to per- sons accustomed to inquire into the facul- ties of the mind . Indeed , the much greater part of it will , he is persuaded , be level to the capacity of all those readers ( not ...
... opinion , will create even the smallest difficulty to per- sons accustomed to inquire into the facul- ties of the mind . Indeed , the much greater part of it will , he is persuaded , be level to the capacity of all those readers ( not ...
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... opinion , to which they refer . To assign a preposterous motive to an action , or to produce an absurd argument for an opinion , is an innuendo , that no good motive or argument can be given * . The citations from the Rape of the Lock ...
... opinion , to which they refer . To assign a preposterous motive to an action , or to produce an absurd argument for an opinion , is an innuendo , that no good motive or argument can be given * . The citations from the Rape of the Lock ...
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... opinion , derided in them . But as people are often very ingenious in their manner of defending a favourite hypothesis , if any admirer of the Hobbesian philosophy should pretend to discover some class of men whom the poet here meant to ...
... opinion , derided in them . But as people are often very ingenious in their manner of defending a favourite hypothesis , if any admirer of the Hobbesian philosophy should pretend to discover some class of men whom the poet here meant to ...
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... opinion , and the same contempt ; and consequent- ly will give the same subject , of triumph , yet without the least tendency to laugh ; and conversely , in reading a well written satire , a man may be much diverted by the wit , whose ...
... opinion , and the same contempt ; and consequent- ly will give the same subject , of triumph , yet without the least tendency to laugh ; and conversely , in reading a well written satire , a man may be much diverted by the wit , whose ...
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