The Philosophy of Rhetoric, 1. köideA. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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... Eloquence , yet , as the nature of his work is didactical , wherein the understanding only is addressed , the style in general admits no higher qualities than purity and perspicuity . These were therefore his highest aim . The best ...
... Eloquence , yet , as the nature of his work is didactical , wherein the understanding only is addressed , the style in general admits no higher qualities than purity and perspicuity . These were therefore his highest aim . The best ...
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... Eloquence . CHAP . I. Eloquence in the largest acceptation defined , its more general forms exhibited , with their different objects , ends , and characters Of Wit , Humour , and Ridicule CHAP . II . SECT . I. Of wit . SECT . II . Of ...
... Eloquence . CHAP . I. Eloquence in the largest acceptation defined , its more general forms exhibited , with their different objects , ends , and characters Of Wit , Humour , and Ridicule CHAP . II . SECT . I. Of wit . SECT . II . Of ...
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... Eloquence and architecture , by which last term is always understood more than building merely for ac- commodation , are to be considered as of a mixed na- , ture , wherein utility and beauty have almost equal influence . THE elegant ...
... Eloquence and architecture , by which last term is always understood more than building merely for ac- commodation , are to be considered as of a mixed na- , ture , wherein utility and beauty have almost equal influence . THE elegant ...
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... eloquence , if ever in these respects we come to equal them . The same thing might pro- bably be affirmed with regard to painting , sculpture , and music , if we had here as ample a fund of materi- ` als for forming a comparison . 1 BUT ...
... eloquence , if ever in these respects we come to equal them . The same thing might pro- bably be affirmed with regard to painting , sculpture , and music , if we had here as ample a fund of materi- ` als for forming a comparison . 1 BUT ...
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... Eloquence or the art of Speaking , in the ex- tensive sense in which I employ the term . For , in the first place , that it ought to be ranked among the polite or fine arts , is manifest from this , that in all its exer- tions , with ...
... Eloquence or the art of Speaking , in the ex- tensive sense in which I employ the term . For , in the first place , that it ought to be ranked among the polite or fine arts , is manifest from this , that in all its exer- tions , with ...
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