The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 2A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 - English language |
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... minds , he must take care in the first place that his style be perspicuous , that so he may be sure of being understood . If he would not only inform the understanding , but please the imagination , he must add the charms of vivacity ...
... minds , he must take care in the first place that his style be perspicuous , that so he may be sure of being understood . If he would not only inform the understanding , but please the imagination , he must add the charms of vivacity ...
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... orator with light and energy into the minds of the hearers . Now as music is to the ear what beauty is to the eye , I shall , + Ibid . Chap . 4 . Of Perspicuity . for want of a more proper term A 2 Chap . V. 3 RHETORIC . in.
... orator with light and energy into the minds of the hearers . Now as music is to the ear what beauty is to the eye , I shall , + Ibid . Chap . 4 . Of Perspicuity . for want of a more proper term A 2 Chap . V. 3 RHETORIC . in.
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... minds of his hearers , by the aid of signs intelligible to them , he may as well declaim before them in an unknown tongue . This prerogative the intellect has above all the other faculties , that , whether it be or not immediately ...
... minds of his hearers , by the aid of signs intelligible to them , he may as well declaim before them in an unknown tongue . This prerogative the intellect has above all the other faculties , that , whether it be or not immediately ...
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... mind of every hearer who perfectly understands the lan- guage . There would not be even a possibility of mis- take or doubt . But the case is widely different with all the languages that ever were , are , or will be in the world ...
... mind of every hearer who perfectly understands the lan- guage . There would not be even a possibility of mis- take or doubt . But the case is widely different with all the languages that ever were , are , or will be in the world ...
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... mind . Now a function cannot be a sentiment impressed or felt . The expression is therefore defective , and ought to have been , " He is inspired with a true sense of the digni- ty , or of the importance of that function . " - " You ...
... mind . Now a function cannot be a sentiment impressed or felt . The expression is therefore defective , and ought to have been , " He is inspired with a true sense of the digni- ty , or of the importance of that function . " - " You ...
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adjectives adverb ambiguity anapest antithesis antonomasia appear arrangement better catachresis cause Chap choice of words clauses Complex sentences composition conducive to vivacity conjunctions connectives employed connexive consequence considered as sounds copulative denominated denote discourse doth effect ellipsis employed in combining English equivocal example exhibit expression figure former French give guage hath hearer ideas idiom imagine imitation instance justly kind language Latin manner meaning metaphor metonymy mind modern nature necessary nonsense noun object obscurity observed occasion offences against brevity Paradise Lost particle particular passage periphrasis perspicuity phrases pleonasm preceding preposition principles pronoun proper terms properly propriety reason regard relation remark rendered sense sensible sentiment serve signify signs Simple sentences sometimes speak speaker species Spect spondee style substantive syllables synecdoché Tatler tautology tence ther things thought tion tive tongue translation verb verse vivacity as depending wherein writer