The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 2A. Strahan, T. Cadell, jun., and W. Davies, 1801 - English language |
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... language , is , as hath been evinced already , reputable , national , and present use , in that language . BUT it is with the expression as with the sentiment , it is not enough to the orator that both be true ... A sentence may be a ...
... language , is , as hath been evinced already , reputable , national , and present use , in that language . BUT it is with the expression as with the sentiment , it is not enough to the orator that both be true ... A sentence may be a ...
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... language and thought , like body and soul , are made to correspond , and the qualities of the one exactly to co - operate with those of the other . But though the perfection of the body consists , as was formerly observedt , in its ...
... language and thought , like body and soul , are made to correspond , and the qualities of the one exactly to co - operate with those of the other . But though the perfection of the body consists , as was formerly observedt , in its ...
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... language were capable of absolute per- fection , which it evidently is not ; if words and things could be rendered ... languages that ever were , are , or will be in the world . GRAMMATICAL purity , in every tongue , conduceth greatly to ...
... language were capable of absolute per- fection , which it evidently is not ; if words and things could be rendered ... languages that ever were , are , or will be in the world . GRAMMATICAL purity , in every tongue , conduceth greatly to ...
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... language to excess , and by needless re- petitions have sometimes enervated the expression , their criticisms , when useful in assisting us to shun any obscurity or ambiguity , de- serve to be adopted . Sect . I. The obscure .... Part I ...
... language to excess , and by needless re- petitions have sometimes enervated the expression , their criticisms , when useful in assisting us to shun any obscurity or ambiguity , de- serve to be adopted . Sect . I. The obscure .... Part I ...
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... language , always weakens the effect which the thoughts were intended to produce in the mind . By perspicuity , " as Quintilian justly observes , " care “ is taken , not that the hearer may understand , if he " will ; but that he must ...
... language , always weakens the effect which the thoughts were intended to produce in the mind . By perspicuity , " as Quintilian justly observes , " care “ is taken , not that the hearer may understand , if he " will ; but that he must ...
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adjectives adverb ambiguity anapest antithesis antonomasia appear arrangement better catachresis cause Chap CHIG choice of words clauses Complex sentences composition conducive to vivacity conjunctions connectives employed connexive consequence copulative denominated denote discourse doth effect ellipsis employed in combining English equivocal example exhibit expression figure former French give hath hearer ideas idiom imagine imitation instance justly kind language Latin manner meaning metaphor metonymy mind modern nature nonsense noun object obscurity observed occasion offences against brevity Paradise Lost particle particular passage periphrasis perspicuity phrases pleonasm preceding preposition principles produce pronoun proper terms properly propriety reason relation remark rendered Rhetorical tropes RSITY Sect sense sensible sentiment serve signify signs Simple sentences SITY sometimes speak speaker species Spect spondee style substantive syllables synecdoché Tatler tautology tence things thought tion tongue translation UNIV verb vivacity as depending wherein writer
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Page 313 - Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 207 - whispers through the trees': If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with
Page 218 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung : Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young : The jolly god in triumph comes...
Page 379 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Page 291 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled : Thou takest away their breath, they die, And return to their dust. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: And thou renewest the face of the earth.
Page 68 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Page 132 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 312 - God is not a man, that he should lie;. neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it ? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Page 341 - They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
Page 200 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.