An Abridgement of Lectures on RhetoricUniversity Press, 1802 - 300 strán (strany) |
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... Language . 6 . 16 · 26 34 43 50 • · 55 63 68 Rife and Progrefs of Language and of Writing Structure of Language Structure of Language . English Tongue Style - Perfpicuity and Precifion · Structure of Sentences The fame fubje & t ...
... Language . 6 . 16 · 26 34 43 50 • · 55 63 68 Rife and Progrefs of Language and of Writing Structure of Language Structure of Language . English Tongue Style - Perfpicuity and Precifion · Structure of Sentences The fame fubje & t ...
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... thefe rules are founded in nature , nature will frequent- ly fuggeft them in practice . Homer was acquaint- ed 6 CRITICISM . in Objects Sublimity in Writing Beauty, and other Pleasures of Tafte Origin and Progrefs of Language.
... thefe rules are founded in nature , nature will frequent- ly fuggeft them in practice . Homer was acquaint- ed 6 CRITICISM . in Objects Sublimity in Writing Beauty, and other Pleasures of Tafte Origin and Progrefs of Language.
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... language . The faults , oppofite to the fublime , are principally two , the Frigid and the Bombaft . The Frigid confists in degrading an object or fentiment , which is fublime in itself , by a mean conception of it ; or by a weak , low ...
... language . The faults , oppofite to the fublime , are principally two , the Frigid and the Bombaft . The Frigid confists in degrading an object or fentiment , which is fublime in itself , by a mean conception of it ; or by a weak , low ...
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... LANGUAGE . To O form an adequate idea of the Origin of Lan guage , we muft contemplate the circumstances of man- kind in their earliest and rude ftate . They were then a wandering , scattered race ; no fociety among 34 ORIGIN AND PROGRESS.
... LANGUAGE . To O form an adequate idea of the Origin of Lan guage , we muft contemplate the circumstances of man- kind in their earliest and rude ftate . They were then a wandering , scattered race ; no fociety among 34 ORIGIN AND PROGRESS.
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... language ? One would imagine that men must have been previously gathered together in confiderable numbers , before language could be fixed and extended ; and yet on the other hand there feems to have been an abfolute neceffity of speech ...
... language ? One would imagine that men must have been previously gathered together in confiderable numbers , before language could be fixed and extended ; and yet on the other hand there feems to have been an abfolute neceffity of speech ...
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Strana 234 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...
Strana 18 - That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
Strana 18 - Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself...
Strana 17 - He made darkness His secret place: His pavilion round about Him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Strana 239 - The mountains saw thee, and they trembled : the overflowing of the water passed by : the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
Strana 17 - In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: He heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
Strana 102 - Me miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep, Still threatening to devour me, opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Strana 106 - I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both. O flowers That never will in other climate grow...
Strana 84 - But God be thanked, his pride is greater than his ignorance, and what he wants in knowledge, he supplies by sufficiency. When he has looked about him as far as he can, he concludes there, is no more to be seen; when he is at the end of his line, he is at the bottom of the ocean; when he has shot his best, he is sure, none ever did nor ever can shoot better or beyond it. His own reason is the certain measure of truth, his own knowledge, of what is possible in nature...
Strana 81 - Homer was the greater genius; Virgil, the better artist; in the one, we most admire the man; in. the other, the work. Homer hurries us with a commanding impetuosity; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty.