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First , from some defect in the expression . There are in all languages certain
elliptical expressions , which use hath established , and which , therefore , very
rarely occasion darkness . When they do occasionit , they ought always to be
avoided ...
First , from some defect in the expression . There are in all languages certain
elliptical expressions , which use hath established , and which , therefore , very
rarely occasion darkness . When they do occasionit , they ought always to be
avoided ...
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But as this almost invariably offends against vivacity , and only sometimes
produceth darkness , there will be a more proper occasion of considering it
afterwards . Another cause of obscurity is a bad choice of words . When it is this
alone which ...
But as this almost invariably offends against vivacity , and only sometimes
produceth darkness , there will be a more proper occasion of considering it
afterwards . Another cause of obscurity is a bad choice of words . When it is this
alone which ...
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Besides , a writer intent upon his subject , is less apt to advert to those
imperfections in his style which occasion ambiguity than to any other . As no term
or phrase he employs , doth of itself suggest the false meaning , a manner of
construing ...
Besides , a writer intent upon his subject , is less apt to advert to those
imperfections in his style which occasion ambiguity than to any other . As no term
or phrase he employs , doth of itself suggest the false meaning , a manner of
construing ...
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... because they certainly are so , as to their service of mankind , if from their very
* store they raise to themselves ideas of respect and greatness of the occasion ,
and I know not what , to - disable themselves from explaining their thoughts t .
... because they certainly are so , as to their service of mankind , if from their very
* store they raise to themselves ideas of respect and greatness of the occasion ,
and I know not what , to - disable themselves from explaining their thoughts t .
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... before , remarked , as an instance of the goodness of providence , that the
moments of time come successively , and not simul . taneously or together ,
which last method of coming would , he said , occasion infinite confusion in the
world .
... before , remarked , as an instance of the goodness of providence , that the
moments of time come successively , and not simul . taneously or together ,
which last method of coming would , he said , occasion infinite confusion in the
world .
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admit ambiguity answer appear application arrangement beginning better called cause choice of words clauses combining common complex composition conjunctions connectives consequence considered contrary critics discourse doth effect employed English equal evident example exhibit expression figure former French frequent give given greater hath ideas imagine imitation instance kind language Latin latter least less manner meaning measure mentioned metaphor mind nature necessary never noun object obscurity observed occasion original particle particular passage perhaps period person perspicuity phrases preceding preposition present principles produce pronoun proper properly reason regard relation remark rendered requires respect Rhetorical Sect sense sentence sentiment serve signify signs simple sometimes sort sound speak species style things thought tion tongue translation tropes truth understand verb vivacity as depending wherein whole writer
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| Title | The Philosophy of Rhetoric, 2. köide The Philosophy of Rhetoric, George Campbell |
| Author | George Campbell |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 22 veeb. 2008 |
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