The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 1A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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... serve to il- lustrate a general observation , which are scarcely worth notice as subjects either of censure or of praise . Nor is there any thing in this book , which , in his opinion , will create even the smallest difficulty to ...
... serve to il- lustrate a general observation , which are scarcely worth notice as subjects either of censure or of praise . Nor is there any thing in this book , which , in his opinion , will create even the smallest difficulty to ...
Página xvi
... serve as a foundation to some beneficial art . On the most sublime of all sci- ences , theology and ethics , is built the most important of all arts , the art of living . The abstract mathema- tical sciences serve as a ground - work to ...
... serve as a foundation to some beneficial art . On the most sublime of all sci- ences , theology and ethics , is built the most important of all arts , the art of living . The abstract mathema- tical sciences serve as a ground - work to ...
Página xvi
... serve the artist instead of principles . An ac- quaintance with these is one step , and but one step towards science . Thus in the common books of a- rithmetic , intended solely for practice , the rules laid down for the ordinary ...
... serve the artist instead of principles . An ac- quaintance with these is one step , and but one step towards science . Thus in the common books of a- rithmetic , intended solely for practice , the rules laid down for the ordinary ...
Página xvi
... serve instead of principles ; and , to a superficial observer , may be thought to supersede the study of any thing further . But their utility reaches a very little way , compared with that which results from the knowledge of the ...
... serve instead of principles ; and , to a superficial observer , may be thought to supersede the study of any thing further . But their utility reaches a very little way , compared with that which results from the knowledge of the ...
Página xvi
... serve considerably both to improve the taste , and to enrich the fancy . By the former effect we learn to amend and avoid faults in compos- ing and speaking , against which the best natural , but uncultivated parts , give no security ...
... serve considerably both to improve the taste , and to enrich the fancy . By the former effect we learn to amend and avoid faults in compos- ing and speaking , against which the best natural , but uncultivated parts , give no security ...
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admit adverb affecting objects analogy appear argument ascer axioms barbarism cause character circumstances common commonly consequently considered as endowed contrary deductive evidence defective verb degree different solutions hitherto discover doth Dr Johnson Dr Priestley effect eloquence employed English equal example excited experience expression favour former give grammatical purity hath hearers Hudibras humour hypothesis ideas idiom imagination impropriety instance kind knowledge latter laughter manner means memory ment mind moral nature neral neuter never noun objects or representations observed orator participle particular passions perhaps periphrasis perly person perspicuity phrases pity pleasure we receive poet preposition present preterit principal canons principles produce pronoun properly Quintilian racter reason receive from affecting regard relation remark render resemblance respect ridicule scholastic art Sect sense sentiments signifies sion solecism sometimes sophism sort speaker speaking species spect term ther thing tical tion tongue truth verb verbal criticism wherein words writers
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