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... ancient and respectable family of Blair , in Ayrshire . His great- grandfather , Mr Robert Blair , minister of St Andrew's , and chaplain to Charles I. was distinguished by his firm attachment to the cause of freedom , and his zealous ...
... ancient and respectable family of Blair , in Ayrshire . His great- grandfather , Mr Robert Blair , minister of St Andrew's , and chaplain to Charles I. was distinguished by his firm attachment to the cause of freedom , and his zealous ...
Page xiv
... Ancient Poetry , collected in the Highlands of Scotland , and translated from the Gaelic or Erse language , " 12mo . to which he prefixed a Preface . These " Fragments " were communicated by Mr Macpherson , and followed , in the same ...
... Ancient Poetry , collected in the Highlands of Scotland , and translated from the Gaelic or Erse language , " 12mo . to which he prefixed a Preface . These " Fragments " were communicated by Mr Macpherson , and followed , in the same ...
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... ancient and modern , and an admirable digest of the rules of elocution , as appli- cable to the oratory of the pulpit , the bar , and the popu- lar assembly . They do not aim at a work purely origi- nal ; for this would have been to ...
... ancient and modern , and an admirable digest of the rules of elocution , as appli- cable to the oratory of the pulpit , the bar , and the popu- lar assembly . They do not aim at a work purely origi- nal ; for this would have been to ...
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... ancients , it was a fundamental principle , and frequently inculcated , " Quod omnibus disciplinis et arti- bus debet esse instructus orator ; " that the orator ought to be an accomplished scholar , and conversant in every part of ...
... ancients , it was a fundamental principle , and frequently inculcated , " Quod omnibus disciplinis et arti- bus debet esse instructus orator ; " that the orator ought to be an accomplished scholar , and conversant in every part of ...
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... ancient than among the modern rhetorical and critical writers . The following remark- able passage in Cicero serves ... ancients appear to have had no distinct name ) under which he calls judicium . " Locus de judicio , mea quidem ...
... ancient than among the modern rhetorical and critical writers . The following remark- able passage in Cicero serves ... ancients appear to have had no distinct name ) under which he calls judicium . " Locus de judicio , mea quidem ...
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