The arts of logick and rhetorick [adapted by J. Oldmixon from La manière de bien penser] by father Bouhours. To which are added parallel quotations out of English authors1728 |
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... Understanding ! THUS it was that Bishop Andrews , and the moft eminent Divines at the Beginning of the laft Century , reduc'd Preaching to Punning , and the Eloquence of the Chair to the Buffoonry of the Stage . Thus it was that Dr ...
... Understanding ! THUS it was that Bishop Andrews , and the moft eminent Divines at the Beginning of the laft Century , reduc'd Preaching to Punning , and the Eloquence of the Chair to the Buffoonry of the Stage . Thus it was that Dr ...
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... Dutch and French Commentators , that Simplicity is a Word of Difguife for a fhameful un- poetical Neglect of Expreffion ; wherein be fhews a 3 us us that he does not really understand what is meant The PR - E FACE . xxi.
... Dutch and French Commentators , that Simplicity is a Word of Difguife for a fhameful un- poetical Neglect of Expreffion ; wherein be fhews a 3 us us that he does not really understand what is meant The PR - E FACE . xxi.
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John Oldmixon. us that he does not really understand what is meant by Simplicity , which be confines to Language , though a Thought is much more likely to be fimple , as coming im- mediately from Nature , than Expreffion , which owes ...
John Oldmixon. us that he does not really understand what is meant by Simplicity , which be confines to Language , though a Thought is much more likely to be fimple , as coming im- mediately from Nature , than Expreffion , which owes ...
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John Oldmixon. as we are taught by the Lord Rofcommon . He must understand if the Writer has a Gift of Nature ; for without it , Eloquence and Method would be of no more Ufe , than Pencil and Colours in the Hands of a blind Man . THERE ...
John Oldmixon. as we are taught by the Lord Rofcommon . He must understand if the Writer has a Gift of Nature ; for without it , Eloquence and Method would be of no more Ufe , than Pencil and Colours in the Hands of a blind Man . THERE ...
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... understands , Hiftory , Poetry , Eloquence , Speeches , Panegyricks , Funeral Orations , and the like . The latter , Funeral Orations are the most study'd Pieces in the French Eloquence , and their Doctors feem to imitate the Licence of ...
... understands , Hiftory , Poetry , Eloquence , Speeches , Panegyricks , Funeral Orations , and the like . The latter , Funeral Orations are the most study'd Pieces in the French Eloquence , and their Doctors feem to imitate the Licence of ...
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