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... thought chargeable . It is his purpose in this Work , on the one hand , to exhibit , he does not say , a correct map , but a tolerable sketch of the human mind ; and , aided by the lights which the poet and the orator so amply furnish ...
... thought chargeable . It is his purpose in this Work , on the one hand , to exhibit , he does not say , a correct map , but a tolerable sketch of the human mind ; and , aided by the lights which the poet and the orator so amply furnish ...
Seite viii
... has endeavoured , as much as he could , in the most abstruse questions , to avoid obscurity ; and in regard to such of his remarks as may be thought too minute and particular , if just , they will not , vin PREFACE .
... has endeavoured , as much as he could , in the most abstruse questions , to avoid obscurity ; and in regard to such of his remarks as may be thought too minute and particular , if just , they will not , vin PREFACE .
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... aim . The best ornaments out of place are not only unbecoming but offen- sive . Nor can any thing be farther from his thoughts than to pretend an exemp- tion from such positive faults in expression , as , PREFACE . ix.
... aim . The best ornaments out of place are not only unbecoming but offen- sive . Nor can any thing be farther from his thoughts than to pretend an exemp- tion from such positive faults in expression , as , PREFACE . ix.
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... thought to supersede the study of any thing further . But their utility reaches a very little way , compared with that which re- sults from the knowledge of the foundations of the art , and of what has been , not unfitly , styled ...
... thought to supersede the study of any thing further . But their utility reaches a very little way , compared with that which re- sults from the knowledge of the foundations of the art , and of what has been , not unfitly , styled ...
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... thoughts and purposes of his audience . It is this which hath been so justly celebrated as giving one man an ascendant over others , superior even to what despotism it- * This animated reasoning the Greek rhetoricians termed durons ...
... thoughts and purposes of his audience . It is this which hath been so justly celebrated as giving one man an ascendant over others , superior even to what despotism it- * This animated reasoning the Greek rhetoricians termed durons ...
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