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The only species of equivocation that comes under reprehension here , is that
which takes place , when an author undesignedly employs an expression
susceptible of a sense different from the sense he intends to convey by it . In
order to ...
The only species of equivocation that comes under reprehension here , is that
which takes place , when an author undesignedly employs an expression
susceptible of a sense different from the sense he intends to convey by it . In
order to ...
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I come now to consider that species of double meaning which ariseth , not from
the use of equivocal terms , but solely from the construction , and which I
therefore distinguished by the name of ambiguity . This of all the faults against
perspicuity ...
I come now to consider that species of double meaning which ariseth , not from
the use of equivocal terms , but solely from the construction , and which I
therefore distinguished by the name of ambiguity . This of all the faults against
perspicuity ...
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This species of the unintelligible , ( which , by the way , differs not in kind , but in
degree , from the obscurity already considered , being no other than that bad
quality in the extreme ) I shall exemplify first in simple , and aftcrvards in complex
...
This species of the unintelligible , ( which , by the way , differs not in kind , but in
degree , from the obscurity already considered , being no other than that bad
quality in the extreme ) I shall exemplify first in simple , and aftcrvards in complex
...
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But , leaving this , which is indeed the dullest species of the unintelligible , I
proceed to the second class , that which arises from an affectation of excellence .
PART II .... From affectation of excellence , In this there is always something
figurative ...
But , leaving this , which is indeed the dullest species of the unintelligible , I
proceed to the second class , that which arises from an affectation of excellence .
PART II .... From affectation of excellence , In this there is always something
figurative ...
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These I shall produce from an author , who , though far from being deficient in
acuteness , invention , or vivacity , is perhaps , in this species of composition , the
most eminent of all that have written in the English language : “ If the “ savour of ...
These I shall produce from an author , who , though far from being deficient in
acuteness , invention , or vivacity , is perhaps , in this species of composition , the
most eminent of all that have written in the English language : “ If the “ savour of ...
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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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