The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 1A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 - English language |
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... One is , too much abstraction in investi- gating causes ; the other , too much minuteness in specifying effects . By the first , the perspicuity of a performance may be endangered ; by the second , its viii PREFACE .
... One is , too much abstraction in investi- gating causes ; the other , too much minuteness in specifying effects . By the first , the perspicuity of a performance may be endangered ; by the second , its viii PREFACE .
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... cause of that pleasure which we receive from objects or representations that excite pity and other painful feelings .. SECT . I. The different solutions hitherto given by phi- losophers , examined . Part I. The first hypothesis . Part ...
... cause of that pleasure which we receive from objects or representations that excite pity and other painful feelings .. SECT . I. The different solutions hitherto given by phi- losophers , examined . Part I. The first hypothesis . Part ...
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... cause , we are least capable of feeling the effect ; as it is certain , that when the effect hath its full influence on us , we have little inclination for investigating the cause . For these reasons , I have resolved to be brief in my ...
... cause , we are least capable of feeling the effect ; as it is certain , that when the effect hath its full influence on us , we have little inclination for investigating the cause . For these reasons , I have resolved to be brief in my ...
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... Cause grace and virtue are within Prohibited degrees of kin : And therefore no true saint allows They shall be suffer'd to espouse * . When the two foregoing instances are compared to- gether , we should say of the first , that it has ...
... Cause grace and virtue are within Prohibited degrees of kin : And therefore no true saint allows They shall be suffer'd to espouse * . When the two foregoing instances are compared to- gether , we should say of the first , that it has ...
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... cause , instantly attacheth sympathy , the common tie of human souls , and thereby commu- nicates the passion to the breast of the hearer . But when the emotion is either not violent or not durable , and the motive not any thing real ...
... cause , instantly attacheth sympathy , the common tie of human souls , and thereby commu- nicates the passion to the breast of the hearer . But when the emotion is either not violent or not durable , and the motive not any thing real ...
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