The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Nide 2A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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... adjective , the comparative of many ; in an instant it is an ad- verb , and the sign of the comparative degree . As the reader is not apprised of this , the sentence must appear to him , on the first glance , a flat contradic- tion ...
... adjective , the comparative of many ; in an instant it is an ad- verb , and the sign of the comparative degree . As the reader is not apprised of this , the sentence must appear to him , on the first glance , a flat contradic- tion ...
Sivu 29
... adjectives : " As for such animals as are mortal or noxious , we have a right to destroy them . " Here the false sense is suggested more readily than the true . The word mortal , therefore , in this sentence , might justly be considered ...
... adjectives : " As for such animals as are mortal or noxious , we have a right to destroy them . " Here the false sense is suggested more readily than the true . The word mortal , therefore , in this sentence , might justly be considered ...
Sivu 30
... adjective or an adverb , and admits a dif- ferent sense in each acceptation : Not only Jesuits can equivocate * . If the word only is here an adverb , the sense is , " To Spect . No. 19. § Ibid . No. 627 . * Dryden's Hind and Panther ...
... adjective or an adverb , and admits a dif- ferent sense in each acceptation : Not only Jesuits can equivocate * . If the word only is here an adverb , the sense is , " To Spect . No. 19. § Ibid . No. 627 . * Dryden's Hind and Panther ...
Sivu 31
... adjective ( and this doubtless is the author's intention ) , the sense is , " Jesuits are not the only per- sons who can equivocate . " But this interpretation suits ill the composition of the sentence . The only other instance of this ...
... adjective ( and this doubtless is the author's intention ) , the sense is , " Jesuits are not the only per- sons who can equivocate . " But this interpretation suits ill the composition of the sentence . The only other instance of this ...
Sivu 45
... adjectives particu- larly , a great risk of ambiguity , when they are not adjoined to the substantives to which they belong . This hazard , it must be owned , is greater in our lan- guage than in most others , our adjectives having no ...
... adjectives particu- larly , a great risk of ambiguity , when they are not adjoined to the substantives to which they belong . This hazard , it must be owned , is greater in our lan- guage than in most others , our adjectives having no ...
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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 contrary copulative denominated denote discourse doth effect ellipsis employed in combining English equivocal example exhibit expression figure former French give 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 produce pronoun proper terms properly propriety reason relation remark rendered Sect 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 vivacity as depending wherein writer
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Sivu 205 - whispers through the trees': If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with
Sivu 202 - Sometimes, with secure delight, The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid Dancing in the chequered shade...
Sivu 222 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung : Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young : The jolly god in triumph comes...
Sivu 151 - 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.
Sivu 312 - And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women.
Sivu 317 - Peace to all such! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent, and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Sivu 383 - 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.
Sivu 295 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled : Thou takest away their breath, they die, And return to their dust. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: And thou renewest the face of the earth.
Sivu 68 - 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.
Sivu 132 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.