The Philosophy of RhetoricT. Tegg, 1841 - Всего страниц: 396 |
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... doth not , like moral reasoning , admit degrees of evidence , its perfection in point of eloquence , if so uncommon an application of the term may be allowed , consists in perspicuity . Per- spicuity here results entirely from propriety ...
... doth not , like moral reasoning , admit degrees of evidence , its perfection in point of eloquence , if so uncommon an application of the term may be allowed , consists in perspicuity . Per- spicuity here results entirely from propriety ...
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... doth not require to its production , as the passions generally do , any reflex view of motives or tendencies , or of any relation either to private interest , or to the good of others ; and ought therefore to be numbered among those ...
... doth not require to its production , as the passions generally do , any reflex view of motives or tendencies , or of any relation either to private interest , or to the good of others ; and ought therefore to be numbered among those ...
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... doth not hold inversely ; one may explain with clearness , and prove with energy , who is incapable of the sublime , the pathetic , and the vehe- ment ; besides , this power of persuasion , or , as Cicero calls it , " posse volun- tates ...
... doth not hold inversely ; one may explain with clearness , and prove with energy , who is incapable of the sublime , the pathetic , and the vehe- ment ; besides , this power of persuasion , or , as Cicero calls it , " posse volun- tates ...
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... doth not constitute a different species , as the repugnancy in that case will always be found between objects in other respects resembling ; for it is to the contrast of dissimilitude and likeness , remoteness and relation in the same ...
... doth not constitute a different species , as the repugnancy in that case will always be found between objects in other respects resembling ; for it is to the contrast of dissimilitude and likeness , remoteness and relation in the same ...
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... doth not so much arise from the comparison they contain of the dropsy to a miser , ( which falls under the descrip- tion that immediately succeeds , ) as from the union of contraries they present to the imagination , poverty in the ...
... doth not so much arise from the comparison they contain of the dropsy to a miser , ( which falls under the descrip- tion that immediately succeeds , ) as from the union of contraries they present to the imagination , poverty in the ...
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