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admit ambiguity answer appear application argument attention beginning better called cause character circumstances clause common concerning conjunctions connected consequence considerable considered contrary critics denote discover distinction doth effect employed English entirely equal evidence example experience expression figure former French frequently give given greater hath hearers ideas idiom illustrate imagination import instance kind knowledge language latter least less manner meaning mentioned mind nature necessary never noun object obscurity observed occasion orator original particular passage passion perhaps person perspicuity phrases preceding preposition present principles produce pronoun proper properly qualities question reason refer regard relation remark rendered requires respect rules sense sentence sentiment serve signified solely sometimes sort sound speak speaker species style term things third thought tion tongue tropes truth understanding verb vivacity wherein whole words writer
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Página 341 - Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer ; thy name is from everlasting.
Página 341 - I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib : but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Página 196 - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
Página 284 - For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell, Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Página 22 - And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box.
Página 27 - She said ; then raging to Sir Plume' repairs, And bids her beau demand the precious hairs : (Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane...
Página 37 - I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly...
Página 183 - 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.
Página 309 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 377 - Pr'ythee, lead me in: There take an inventory of all I have, To the last penny ; 'tis the king's : my robe, And my integrity to heaven, is all I dare now call mine own.
Informações bibliográficas
| Título | The Philosophy of Rhetoric |
| Autor | George Campbell |
| Edição | 11 |
| Editora | Harper & brothers, 1841 |
| Original de | Harvard University |
| Digitalizado | 18 out. 2007 |
| Num. págs. | 396 páginas |
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