The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 2A. Strahan, T. Cadell, jun., and W. Davies, 1801 - English language |
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... preceding principles ... 98 The extensive usefulness of perspicuity ..... III SECT . I. When is obscurity apposite , if ever it be appo- site , and what kind ? ib . .......... SECT . II . Objections answered .. .... 121 CHAP . IX . May ...
... preceding principles ... 98 The extensive usefulness of perspicuity ..... III SECT . I. When is obscurity apposite , if ever it be appo- site , and what kind ? ib . .......... SECT . II . Objections answered .. .... 121 CHAP . IX . May ...
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... preceding chapters , may justly be denomi- nated grammatical truth . It consisteth in the confor- mity of the expression to the sentiment which the speaker or the writer intends to convey by it , as mo ral truth consisteth in the ...
... preceding chapters , may justly be denomi- nated grammatical truth . It consisteth in the confor- mity of the expression to the sentiment which the speaker or the writer intends to convey by it , as mo ral truth consisteth in the ...
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... preceding . More clearly thus : " I had several men in my ship who . " died of calentures . " I shall remark , by the way , that though the relatives who and which may , agree- ably to the English idiom , be sometimes omitted in the ...
... preceding . More clearly thus : " I had several men in my ship who . " died of calentures . " I shall remark , by the way , that though the relatives who and which may , agree- ably to the English idiom , be sometimes omitted in the ...
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... preceding instances , suggest a wrong construction . Of this the following will suffice for an example : " The young man did not want natu- " ral talents ; but the father of him was a coxcomb , " who affected being a fine gentleman so ...
... preceding instances , suggest a wrong construction . Of this the following will suffice for an example : " The young man did not want natu- " ral talents ; but the father of him was a coxcomb , " who affected being a fine gentleman so ...
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... preceding examples I shall add one , wherein the adverb when , by being used in the same manner , occasions some obscurity : " He is inspired with a true 66 sense of that function , when chosen from a regard " to the interests of piety ...
... preceding examples I shall add one , wherein the adverb when , by being used in the same manner , occasions some obscurity : " He is inspired with a true 66 sense of that function , when chosen from a regard " to the interests of piety ...
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adjectives adverb ambiguity anapest antithesis antonomasia appear arrangement better catachresis cause Chap CHIG choice of words clauses Complex sentences composition conducive to vivacity conjunctions connectives employed connexive consequence copulative denominated denote discourse doth double meaning effect ellipsis employed in combining English equivocal example expression figure former French give hath hearer HIGAN ideas idiom imagine imitation instance justly kind language Latin manner metaphor metonymy MICHIG MICHIGAN mind modern nature nonsense noun object obscurity observed occasion offences against brevity Paradise Lost particle particular passage periphrasis perspicuity phrases pleonasm preceding preposition principles pronoun proper terms properly reason relation remark rendered Rhetorical tropes Sect sense sensible sentiment serve signify signs Simple sentences sometimes speak speaker species Spect spondee style substantive syllables synecdoché Tatler tence things thought tion tongue translation unintelligible UNIVE verb vivacity as depending wherein writer
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Page 313 - Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 207 - whispers through the trees': If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with
Page 218 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung : Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young : The jolly god in triumph comes...
Page 379 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Page 291 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled : Thou takest away their breath, they die, And return to their dust. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: And thou renewest the face of the earth.
Page 68 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Page 132 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 312 - God is not a man, that he should lie;. neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it ? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Page 341 - They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
Page 200 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.