The Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres; Or, An Introduction to Languages, Poetry, Rhetorick, History, Moral Philosophy, Physicks, &c. ...W. Strahan, 1769 |
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... easy to conceive , that rhetoric , without the study of good authors , is lifeless and bar- ren , and that examples in this , as in all other things , are infinitely more efficacious than precepts ; and in- deed the rhetorician seems ...
... easy to conceive , that rhetoric , without the study of good authors , is lifeless and bar- ren , and that examples in this , as in all other things , are infinitely more efficacious than precepts ; and in- deed the rhetorician seems ...
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... easy to give them abilities as a lawyer's gown : whereas had they made them pafs through the ordinary degrees of literature , and allowed their judgment time to ripen , by a care- fut full study of authors ; to imbibe a great number 6 ...
... easy to give them abilities as a lawyer's gown : whereas had they made them pafs through the ordinary degrees of literature , and allowed their judgment time to ripen , by a care- fut full study of authors ; to imbibe a great number 6 ...
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... easy to correct too great a redundancy ; but a barren genius has no remedy . " " " Those who have read Cicero , continues Quin- " tilian , know very well , that I only follow his " opinion m Vitium utrumque : pejus ta- men illud quod ex ...
... easy to correct too great a redundancy ; but a barren genius has no remedy . " " " Those who have read Cicero , continues Quin- " tilian , know very well , that I only follow his " opinion m Vitium utrumque : pejus ta- men illud quod ex ...
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... easy with them . This " flattered their genius , and did not deceive their " judgment . " I have nothing to add to these excellent reflec- tions , except what Quintilian himself has faid in an- other place , where he treats of the duty ...
... easy with them . This " flattered their genius , and did not deceive their " judgment . " I have nothing to add to these excellent reflec- tions , except what Quintilian himself has faid in an- other place , where he treats of the duty ...
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... easy it is for bom- baft to ufurp the place of the grand and fublime . This piece was , no doubt , writ in Malherbe's youth , and seems unworthy of a place amongst his other poems . VII . Figures are not the least part of the fublime ...
... easy it is for bom- baft to ufurp the place of the grand and fublime . This piece was , no doubt , writ in Malherbe's youth , and seems unworthy of a place amongst his other poems . VII . Figures are not the least part of the fublime ...
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