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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... Orator's Brain is always de- lirious . But let the bold Adventurer be fure That every Line the Teft of Truth endure . On this Foundation may the Fabrick rife , Firm and unfhaken , till it touch the Skies . From Pulpits banish'd , from ...
... Orator's Brain is always de- lirious . But let the bold Adventurer be fure That every Line the Teft of Truth endure . On this Foundation may the Fabrick rife , Firm and unfhaken , till it touch the Skies . From Pulpits banish'd , from ...
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... Orators , in the different Manners of Thinking . THE Difficulty of this Task will be eafily conceiv'd by thofe who judge with Your Quick- nefs and Exactnefs ; but the Number of them is fo few , that it will be neceffary to explain it a ...
... Orators , in the different Manners of Thinking . THE Difficulty of this Task will be eafily conceiv'd by thofe who judge with Your Quick- nefs and Exactnefs ; but the Number of them is fo few , that it will be neceffary to explain it a ...
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... Orator with Force , a " Mechanick with Rudeness . The Diction of Arifto- 66 66 phanes's Characters is at a Venture , and you cannot " tell whether it is a Son or a Father , a Labourer or a " God , an old Woman or a Hero- -An excellent ...
... Orator with Force , a " Mechanick with Rudeness . The Diction of Arifto- 66 66 phanes's Characters is at a Venture , and you cannot " tell whether it is a Son or a Father , a Labourer or a " God , an old Woman or a Hero- -An excellent ...
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... Orator is , that his Wit be not creeping : Indeed , ' tis impof- fible for a Man who all his Life time has been us'd to mean and fervile Inclinations , ever to be able to produce any Thing very Marvellous , or worthy of Pofterity ...
... Orator is , that his Wit be not creeping : Indeed , ' tis impof- fible for a Man who all his Life time has been us'd to mean and fervile Inclinations , ever to be able to produce any Thing very Marvellous , or worthy of Pofterity ...
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... Oratory on those Occafions , more than the Piety and Simplicity of Chriftian Sermons . THE Author has not treated this Subject as it is done in the Schools , where you must travel thro ' a wide and barren Country of Technical Forms and ...
... Oratory on those Occafions , more than the Piety and Simplicity of Chriftian Sermons . THE Author has not treated this Subject as it is done in the Schools , where you must travel thro ' a wide and barren Country of Technical Forms and ...
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