The Philosophy of RhetoricTegg, 1838 - 426 Seiten |
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... influence of example on the one hand , and imitation on the other , some progress may be made in an art , without the knowledge of the prin- ciples from which it sprung . By the help of a few rules , which men are taught to use ...
... influence of example on the one hand , and imitation on the other , some progress may be made in an art , without the knowledge of the prin- ciples from which it sprung . By the help of a few rules , which men are taught to use ...
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... influenced by certain general pro- positions , real or imaginary . But the difference lies here , that in the one they are real , in the other imaginary . The system of the one is reared on the firm basis of experience , the theory of ...
... influenced by certain general pro- positions , real or imaginary . But the difference lies here , that in the one they are real , in the other imaginary . The system of the one is reared on the firm basis of experience , the theory of ...
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... influence . The elegant arts , as well as the useful , are founded in ex- , perience , but from the difference of their nature , there arises a considerable difference both in their origin and in their growth . Necessity , the mother of ...
... influence . The elegant arts , as well as the useful , are founded in ex- , perience , but from the difference of their nature , there arises a considerable difference both in their origin and in their growth . Necessity , the mother of ...
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... influenced , and by which one may be enabled to dis- cover to what particular purpose each attempt is adapted , and in what circumstances only to be used . The fourth and last is to canvass those principles in our nature , to which the ...
... influenced , and by which one may be enabled to dis- cover to what particular purpose each attempt is adapted , and in what circumstances only to be used . The fourth and last is to canvass those principles in our nature , to which the ...
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... influence to in- stances innumerable . It is in this way that , on experiments comparatively few , all the physiological sciences have been . reared ; it is in this way that those comprehensive truths were first discovered , which have ...
... influence to in- stances innumerable . It is in this way that , on experiments comparatively few , all the physiological sciences have been . reared ; it is in this way that those comprehensive truths were first discovered , which have ...
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admit adverb affirm antonomasia appear application argument ascer axioms beauty catachresis Chap character Cicero circumstances clause common commonly conjunctions connection connexive consequently considered contrary critics degree denominated denote discourse doth Dunciad effect eloquence employed English equal evidence example exhibit experience expression former French give grammar hath hearers Hudibras humour ideas idiom imagination instance justly kind language lative latter manner meaning metaphor metonymy mind moral nature necessary never noun object observed occasion orator participle particular passion perhaps periphrasis person perspicuity persuade phrases pity pleasure pleonasm poet preceding preposition present preterite principles produce pronoun proper properly qualities Quintilian reason regard relation remark rendered resemblance respect ridicule sense sensible sentence sentiments shew signified sion solecism solely sometimes sophism sort speak speaker species Spect style syllables syllogism synecdoche Tatler term things tion tongue tropes truth verb vivacity wherein words writers
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 362 - I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib : but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Seite 386 - Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne; View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer...
Seite 302 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Seite 333 - 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.
Seite 257 - 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.
Seite 420 - 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.
Seite 335 - Slow melting strains their Queen's approach declare: Where'er she turns the Graces homage pay. With arms sublime, that float upon the air, In gliding state she wins her easy way: O'er her warm cheek, and rising bosom, move The bloom of young Desire, and purple light of Love.
Seite 327 - 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...
Seite 357 - Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock : and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house ; and it fell not : for it was founded upon a rock.
Seite 298 - Some say, he bid his angels turn askance The poles of earth, twice ten degrees and more, From the sun's axle ; they with labour push'd Oblique the centric globe.