The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 1A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 - English language |
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Page viii
... thought chargeable . It is his purpose in this work , on the one hand , to exhibit , he does not say , a correct map , but a tolerable sketch of the human mind ; and , aided by the lights which the poet and the orator so amply furnish ...
... thought chargeable . It is his purpose in this work , on the one hand , to exhibit , he does not say , a correct map , but a tolerable sketch of the human mind ; and , aided by the lights which the poet and the orator so amply furnish ...
Page ix
... thought too minute and particular , if just , they will not , he hopes , on a re - examination , be deemed of no consequence . Those may serve to il- lustrate a general observation , which are scarcely worth notice as subjects either of ...
... thought too minute and particular , if just , they will not , he hopes , on a re - examination , be deemed of no consequence . Those may serve to il- lustrate a general observation , which are scarcely worth notice as subjects either of ...
Page x
... thoughts than to pretend to an exemption from such positive faults in expression , as , on the ar- ticle of Elocution , he hath so freely criticised in the best English authors . He is entirely sensible , that an impropriety , or other ...
... thoughts than to pretend to an exemption from such positive faults in expression , as , on the ar- ticle of Elocution , he hath so freely criticised in the best English authors . He is entirely sensible , that an impropriety , or other ...
Page xvi
... thought to supersede the study of any thing further . But their utility reaches a very little way , compared with that which results from the knowledge of the foundations of the art , and of what has been , not un- fitly , styled ...
... thought to supersede the study of any thing further . But their utility reaches a very little way , compared with that which results from the knowledge of the foundations of the art , and of what has been , not un- fitly , styled ...
Page 30
... thoughts and purposes of his audience . It is this which hath been so justly celebrated as giv- ing one man an ascendant over others , superior even to what despotism itself can bestow ; since by the lat- ter the more ignoble part ...
... thoughts and purposes of his audience . It is this which hath been so justly celebrated as giv- ing one man an ascendant over others , superior even to what despotism itself can bestow ; since by the lat- ter the more ignoble part ...
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