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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... refinement of their hearers taught them to guard against this dangerous power and obliged the Orators to reduce their eloquence within ftricter bounds . Thus it became the next care of this people to give their style a greater elegance ...
... refinement of their hearers taught them to guard against this dangerous power and obliged the Orators to reduce their eloquence within ftricter bounds . Thus it became the next care of this people to give their style a greater elegance ...
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... refinement , the great Roman fpeakers formed higher ideas of this accomplishment than had ever been fug- gested by their own obfervation . It was the faying of Anto- nius the orator , * difertos se vidiffe multos , eloquentem omnino ...
... refinement , the great Roman fpeakers formed higher ideas of this accomplishment than had ever been fug- gested by their own obfervation . It was the faying of Anto- nius the orator , * difertos se vidiffe multos , eloquentem omnino ...
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... refinement . If NEWTON had written his invaluable Principia , not in his own neat Latinity , but in a Style somewhat incorrect and corrupted , yet still fufficiently intelligible ; what should we think of that man who , tho ' capable of ...
... refinement . If NEWTON had written his invaluable Principia , not in his own neat Latinity , but in a Style somewhat incorrect and corrupted , yet still fufficiently intelligible ; what should we think of that man who , tho ' capable of ...
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