The Philosophy of Rhetoric, 1. köideA. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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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 ...
Page ix
... opinion , will create even the smallest difficulty to persons accustomed to enquire into the faculties 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 persons accustomed to enquire into the faculties 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 peo- ple are often very ingenious in their manner of de- fending a favourite hypothesis , if any admirer of the Hobbesian philosophy should pretend to discover some * Ibid . Hudibras , Part I. Canto I ...
... opinion , derided in them . But as peo- ple are often very ingenious in their manner of de- fending a favourite hypothesis , if any admirer of the Hobbesian philosophy should pretend to discover some * Ibid . Hudibras , Part I. Canto I ...
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... opinion , and the same contempt ; and consequently will give the same subject of tri- umph , yet without the least tendency to laugh : and conversely , in reading a well - writen satire , a man may be much diverted by the wit , whose ...
... opinion , and the same contempt ; and consequently will give the same subject of tri- umph , yet without the least tendency to laugh : and conversely , in reading a well - writen satire , a man may be much diverted by the wit , whose ...
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