Rhetoric; Or, A View of Its Principal Tropes and Figures, in Their Origin and Powers: With a Variety of Rules to Escape Errors and Blemishes, and Attain Propriety and Elegance in CompositionJ. and W. Oliver, 1767 - 478 страници |
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... Writer on Rhetoric ; and it might be deemed an Instance of the Inutility of the Art I am recommend- ing , to apply the Powers of Oratory to a Character A 3 Character fo well known as Your Grace's , and which DEDICATION .
... Writer on Rhetoric ; and it might be deemed an Instance of the Inutility of the Art I am recommend- ing , to apply the Powers of Oratory to a Character A 3 Character fo well known as Your Grace's , and which DEDICATION .
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... Writers have not fo entirely gathered the harvest of Rhetoric , as not to leave behind them large fheaves , with which a fucceffor might fill his bofom , and confiderably contribute to the knowledge and entertainment of fuch perfons ...
... Writers have not fo entirely gathered the harvest of Rhetoric , as not to leave behind them large fheaves , with which a fucceffor might fill his bofom , and confiderably contribute to the knowledge and entertainment of fuch perfons ...
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... Writers both ancient and modern , of fuitable , and , as they appeared to his judgment , lively and beautiful ex- amples of the feveral Tropes and Figures upon which he has treated . As bees , wide - wand'ring thro ' the bloffom'd ...
... Writers both ancient and modern , of fuitable , and , as they appeared to his judgment , lively and beautiful ex- amples of the feveral Tropes and Figures upon which he has treated . As bees , wide - wand'ring thro ' the bloffom'd ...
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... Writers ancient and modern , Critics , Orators , and Poets , he makes himself refponfible for many difquifitions and ftrictures in the course of his Work ; and as he has not fpared his pains to collect remarks and obfervations from ...
... Writers ancient and modern , Critics , Orators , and Poets , he makes himself refponfible for many difquifitions and ftrictures in the course of his Work ; and as he has not fpared his pains to collect remarks and obfervations from ...
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... Writers upon the fubject ; or I might entreat the candor of the Public to the defects and blemishes that may be too vifible in my Work , from " nate should understand this , that the Conful fhould fee this , " and yet that this traitor ...
... Writers upon the fubject ; or I might entreat the candor of the Public to the defects and blemishes that may be too vifible in my Work , from " nate should understand this , that the Conful fhould fee this , " and yet that this traitor ...
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