The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volumen1George Ramsay & Company, 1808 |
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... Common sense . SECT II . Of deductive evidence . Part I. Division of the subject into scientific and moral , with the principal distinctions between them . 92 94 103 ib . Part II . The nature and origin of experience . 111 . Part III ...
... Common sense . SECT II . Of deductive evidence . Part I. Division of the subject into scientific and moral , with the principal distinctions between them . 92 94 103 ib . Part II . The nature and origin of experience . 111 . Part III ...
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... science . Thus in the common books of arithmetic , intended solely for practice , the rules laid down for the ordinary operations , as for nume- , ration , or numercial notation , addition , subtraction , INTRODUCTION . 3.
... science . Thus in the common books of arithmetic , intended solely for practice , the rules laid down for the ordinary operations , as for nume- , ration , or numercial notation , addition , subtraction , INTRODUCTION . 3.
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... common conversation , is seldom used in such a comprehensive sense . I have , however , made choice of this definition on a double account : 1st , It exactly corresponds to Tully's idea of a perfect orator ; " Optimus est orator qui ...
... common conversation , is seldom used in such a comprehensive sense . I have , however , made choice of this definition on a double account : 1st , It exactly corresponds to Tully's idea of a perfect orator ; " Optimus est orator qui ...
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... common foundation to both , and has here nothing peculiar . This may be styled the eloquence of conversation , as the other is more strictly the eloquence of decla- mation * . Not , indeed , but that wit , humour , ridi- cule , which ...
... common foundation to both , and has here nothing peculiar . This may be styled the eloquence of conversation , as the other is more strictly the eloquence of decla- mation * . Not , indeed , but that wit , humour , ridi- cule , which ...
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... common fountains of whatever is directed to the imaginative powers , the ornaments of elocution , and the oratorical figures , similé apostrophé , antithesis , metaphor ; partly from those she in a manner appro- priates to herself ...
... common fountains of whatever is directed to the imaginative powers , the ornaments of elocution , and the oratorical figures , similé apostrophé , antithesis , metaphor ; partly from those she in a manner appro- priates to herself ...
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Página 36 - Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux. Now awful beauty puts on all its arms ; The fair each moment rises in her charms, Repairs her smiles, awakens every grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face : Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes.
Página 35 - And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box.
Página 35 - A heavenly image in the glass appears, To that she bends, to that her eyes she rears ; The inferior priestess, at her altar's side, Trembling begins the sacred rites of pride.
Página 412 - It celebrates the church of England, as the most perfect of all others, in discipline and doctrine ; it advances no opinion they reject, nor condemns any they receive.
Página 413 - We next went to the school of languages, where three professors sat in consultation upon improving that of their own country. The first project was to shorten discourse by cutting polysyllables into one, and leaving out verbs and participles, because in reality all things imaginable are but nouns.
Página 73 - So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music: Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself, and scorn'd his spirit That could be mov'd to smile at any thing.
Página 284 - And went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn and took care of him.
Página 14 - All the ends of speaking are reducible to four ; every speech being intended to enlighten the understanding, to please the imagination, to move the passions, or to influence the will.
Página 164 - The coolest reasoner always in persuading, addresseth himself to the passions some way or other. This he cannot avoid doing, if he speak to the purpose. To make me believe, it is enough to show me that things are so ; to make me act, it is necessary to show that the action will answer some End.
Página 61 - And Milo-like surveys his arms and hands ; Then, sighing, thus, " And am I now three-score? Ah why, ye gods, should two and two make four?