Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 1A. Strahan, T. Cadell, in the Strand, and W. Creech, in Edinburgh, 1790 |
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... confiderable place in every plan of liberal education . INDEED , when the arts of fpeech and writing are mentioned , I am fenfible that prejudices against them are apt to rife in the minds of many . A fort of art is immediately thought ...
... confiderable place in every plan of liberal education . INDEED , when the arts of fpeech and writing are mentioned , I am fenfible that prejudices against them are apt to rife in the minds of many . A fort of art is immediately thought ...
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... confiderable errors . ALL that regards the study of eloquence and compofition , merits the higher attention upon this account , that it is intimately connected with the improvement of our intellectual powers . For I must be allowed to ...
... confiderable errors . ALL that regards the study of eloquence and compofition , merits the higher attention upon this account , that it is intimately connected with the improvement of our intellectual powers . For I must be allowed to ...
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... confiderable fource of the improvement of Tafte , from the application of reafon and good fenfe to fuch productions of genius . Spurious beauties , fuch as unna- tural characters , forced fentiments , affected ftyle , may please for a ...
... confiderable fource of the improvement of Tafte , from the application of reafon and good fenfe to fuch productions of genius . Spurious beauties , fuch as unna- tural characters , forced fentiments , affected ftyle , may please for a ...
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... confiderable degree of Tafte in Poetry , Elo- quence , or any of the fine arts , who has little or hardly any Genius for compofition or exe- cution in any of these arts : but Genius can- not be found without including Taste also ...
... confiderable degree of Tafte in Poetry , Elo- quence , or any of the fine arts , who has little or hardly any Genius for compofition or exe- cution in any of these arts : but Genius can- not be found without including Taste also ...
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... confiderable ; though fome ingenious writers have pursued the fub- ject . This is owing , doubtlefs , to that thin- nefs and fubtility which are found to be pro- perties of all the feelings of Taste . They are engaging objects ; but ...
... confiderable ; though fome ingenious writers have pursued the fub- ject . This is owing , doubtlefs , to that thin- nefs and fubtility which are found to be pro- perties of all the feelings of Taste . They are engaging objects ; but ...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Vol. 1 of 3 (Classic Reprint) Hugh Blair No preview available - 2018 |
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