A Dissertation on the Principles of Human Eloquence with Particular Regard to the Style and Composition of the New Testament: In which the Observations on this Subject by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester, in His Discourse on the Doctrine of Grace are Distinctly Considered. Being the Substance of Several Lectures Read in the Oratory School of Trinity College, Dublin |
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... fashion.- So that the Poet of the piping Winds , and the twisted curls of flame , whom * Longinus quotes with Ed . I earce . fo much difrespect , poffeffed as great intrinsic excellence , was as elegant in his diction , in his images as ...
... fashion.- So that the Poet of the piping Winds , and the twisted curls of flame , whom * Longinus quotes with Ed . I earce . fo much difrespect , poffeffed as great intrinsic excellence , was as elegant in his diction , in his images as ...
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... fashion , or nice and exact in following the fashion ; and that it is the casual pleasure of the world , to confer fo great a degree of authority and reputation on his writings , while thofe of JOSUAH SYL- VESTER are as capricioufly ...
... fashion , or nice and exact in following the fashion ; and that it is the casual pleasure of the world , to confer fo great a degree of authority and reputation on his writings , while thofe of JOSUAH SYL- VESTER are as capricioufly ...
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... fashion could oppose to their penetration . They were not , then , en- tirely guided by imitation . As , in general , they pursued the fame means of influencing their hearers ; and as the same means are still approved by all polished ...
... fashion could oppose to their penetration . They were not , then , en- tirely guided by imitation . As , in general , they pursued the fame means of influencing their hearers ; and as the same means are still approved by all polished ...
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