The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Band 1George Ramsay & Company, 1808 |
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... are suggested , whereby the necessary aids of topics , arguments , illustrations , and motives , may be pro- cured . Besides , this study , properly conducted , leads directly to an acquaintance with ourselves ; it not INTRODUCTION . 13.
... are suggested , whereby the necessary aids of topics , arguments , illustrations , and motives , may be pro- cured . Besides , this study , properly conducted , leads directly to an acquaintance with ourselves ; it not INTRODUCTION . 13.
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... arguing , or forms of speech , that have been employed for the purposes of explaining , convincing , pleasing , moving ... argument , the tropes and figures of speech , with their divisions and subdivisions , are explained . By the third ...
... arguing , or forms of speech , that have been employed for the purposes of explaining , convincing , pleasing , moving ... argument , the tropes and figures of speech , with their divisions and subdivisions , are explained . By the third ...
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... argument . By that we are made to know , by this to believe . The imagination is addressed by exhibiting to it a lively and beautiful representation of a suitable object . As in this exhibition , the task of the ora tor may , in some ...
... argument . By that we are made to know , by this to believe . The imagination is addressed by exhibiting to it a lively and beautiful representation of a suitable object . As in this exhibition , the task of the ora tor may , in some ...
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... arguments exciting to re- solution and activity ; and are , consequently , the fittest for producing , what , for want of a better term in our language , I shall henceforth denomi- nate the vehement . There is , besides , an interme ...
... arguments exciting to re- solution and activity ; and are , consequently , the fittest for producing , what , for want of a better term in our language , I shall henceforth denomi- nate the vehement . There is , besides , an interme ...
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... argument , as that , from the passion excited , our reasoning may derive impor- tance , and so be fitted for commanding attention ; and by the justness of the reasoning , the passion may be more deeply rooted and enforced ; and that ...
... argument , as that , from the passion excited , our reasoning may derive impor- tance , and so be fitted for commanding attention ; and by the justness of the reasoning , the passion may be more deeply rooted and enforced ; and that ...
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admit adverb analogy appear argument axioms barbarous canon catachresis cerning CHAP character circumstances common commonly consequently considered contrary critics degree denominated denote derive discourse discover doth Dr Priestley Dunciad effect eloquence employed English equal evidence example excited experience expression former give grammar guage hath hearers Hudibras human humour ideas idiom imagination impropriety influence instance ject justly kind knowledge language Laputa latter laughter least manner means memory ment mind moral nature necessary neral never object observed orator pain participle particular passions perhaps periphrasis perly person perspicuity phrases pity pleasure poet preposition present preterit principles produce proper properly Quintilian reason regard relation remarked render resemblance respect ridicule rience Romani sense sentiments signifies sion solecism solely sometimes sophism sort speak speaker species Spect style syllogism term thing tion tongue tropes truth turally verb wherein words writers
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Seite 36 - Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux. Now awful beauty puts on all its arms ; The fair each moment rises in her charms, Repairs her smiles, awakens every grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face : Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes.
Seite 35 - And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box.
Seite 35 - A heavenly image in the glass appears, To that she bends, to that her eyes she rears ; The inferior priestess, at her altar's side, Trembling begins the sacred rites of pride.
Seite 412 - It celebrates the church of England, as the most perfect of all others, in discipline and doctrine ; it advances no opinion they reject, nor condemns any they receive.
Seite 413 - We next went to the school of languages, where three professors sat in consultation upon improving that of their own country. The first project was to shorten discourse by cutting polysyllables into one, and leaving out verbs and participles, because in reality all things imaginable are but nouns.
Seite 73 - So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music: Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself, and scorn'd his spirit That could be mov'd to smile at any thing.
Seite 284 - And went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn and took care of him.
Seite 14 - All the ends of speaking are reducible to four ; every speech being intended to enlighten the understanding, to please the imagination, to move the passions, or to influence the will.
Seite 164 - The coolest reasoner always in persuading, addresseth himself to the passions some way or other. This he cannot avoid doing, if he speak to the purpose. To make me believe, it is enough to show me that things are so ; to make me act, it is necessary to show that the action will answer some End.
Seite 61 - And Milo-like surveys his arms and hands ; Then, sighing, thus, " And am I now three-score? Ah why, ye gods, should two and two make four?