Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: In Three Volumes, Volume 1Strahan, 1787 - 456 pages |
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... fpeak , accurately . By putting our fenti- ments into words , we always conceive them more diftinctly . Every one who has the flighteft acquaintance with compofition knows , that when he expreffes himself ill on any fub- ject , when his ...
... fpeak , accurately . By putting our fenti- ments into words , we always conceive them more diftinctly . Every one who has the flighteft acquaintance with compofition knows , that when he expreffes himself ill on any fub- ject , when his ...
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... fpeak of the leffer differences . among the Taftes of men , yet when we apply it to the extremes , prefently shows its ab- furdity . For is there any one who will fe- riously maintain that the Tafte of a Hottentot or a Laplander is as ...
... fpeak of the leffer differences . among the Taftes of men , yet when we apply it to the extremes , prefently shows its ab- furdity . For is there any one who will fe- riously maintain that the Tafte of a Hottentot or a Laplander is as ...
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... fpeak , by which it may be prefented to us , according to the circum- ftances with which we furround it ; and it will appear eminently Sublime , or not , in propor- tion as all these circumftances are happily chofen , and of a Sublime ...
... fpeak , by which it may be prefented to us , according to the circum- ftances with which we furround it ; and it will appear eminently Sublime , or not , in propor- tion as all these circumftances are happily chofen , and of a Sublime ...
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... fpeak , transfufed into another . Not only are names given to all objects around us , by which means an easy and speedy intercourfe is carried on for providing the neceffaries of life , but all the relations and differences among thefe ...
... fpeak , transfufed into another . Not only are names given to all objects around us , by which means an easy and speedy intercourfe is carried on for providing the neceffaries of life , but all the relations and differences among thefe ...
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... fpeak of them as the boast of human reafon . But certainly no invention is entitled to any fuch degree of ad- miration as that of Language ; which , too , must have been the product of the firft and rudest ages , if indeed it can be ...
... fpeak of them as the boast of human reafon . But certainly no invention is entitled to any fuch degree of ad- miration as that of Language ; which , too , must have been the product of the firft and rudest ages , if indeed it can be ...
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Æneid againſt alfo alſo antient arifes Beauty becauſe cafes cauſe Cicero circumftances Compariſons compofition confiderable conftruction courſe Dean Swift defcribing defcription defign difcourfe diftinction diftinguiſhed employed expreffion exprefs faid fame feems fenfe fenfible fentiments feveral fhall fhould fignify figns Figures fimple firft firſt fome fometimes fpeak ftate ftill ftrong ftudied ftyle fubftantive fubject fuch fufficient fuppofed genius give guage higheſt himſelf ideas imagination impreffion inftance itſelf ject laft Language LECT lefs Lord Bolingbroke manner meaning meaſure Metaphor mind moft moſt mufic muft muſt nature neceffary nouns obfcure obferve objects occafions paffage paffion perfons Perfpicuity pleaſe pleaſure poetry prefent profe proper propofition purpoſe racters raiſed reaſon refpect reft render reſemblance rife ſenſe Sentence ſeveral ſhall ſpeak Speech ſtate ſtudy ſtyle Sublime ſuch Tafte Taſte tence thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe tion Tropes underſtanding underſtood uſe verbs whofe words writing