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... excellent ART , conformable to , and fupported by the AUTHORITY of the moft accurate ORATORS and RHETORICIANS , both ANCIENT and MODERN , viz . ISOCRATES , ARISTOTLE , CICERO , DIONYSIUS Halicarnaff . QUINTILIAN , VOSSIUS , PETRUS RAMUS ...
... excellent ART , conformable to , and fupported by the AUTHORITY of the moft accurate ORATORS and RHETORICIANS , both ANCIENT and MODERN , viz . ISOCRATES , ARISTOTLE , CICERO , DIONYSIUS Halicarnaff . QUINTILIAN , VOSSIUS , PETRUS RAMUS ...
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... Excellent Art of SPEAKING WELL and WRI- TING ELEGANTLY , in their own or either of the Learned LANGUAGES , Is humbly Infcribed by YOUR WORSHIPS Faithful , Obliged , and Moft Obedient Servant , J. HOLMES . gift Top AMPLISSIMIS ...
... Excellent Art of SPEAKING WELL and WRI- TING ELEGANTLY , in their own or either of the Learned LANGUAGES , Is humbly Infcribed by YOUR WORSHIPS Faithful , Obliged , and Moft Obedient Servant , J. HOLMES . gift Top AMPLISSIMIS ...
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... a brief and lively Reprefentation of Univerfal Eloquence ; from which you may easily and readily , with a little Pains , un- derftand all the Oratorial Beauties of Excellent Excellent Writers , and , when under- food , make DEDE FAC E.
... a brief and lively Reprefentation of Univerfal Eloquence ; from which you may easily and readily , with a little Pains , un- derftand all the Oratorial Beauties of Excellent Excellent Writers , and , when under- food , make DEDE FAC E.
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John Holmes. Excellent Writers , and , when under- food , make ' em your own by frequent Compofition and an attentive fedulous Imitation . OBJ . But are there not Rhetorical Treatifes enough already extant for this Purpose ? What ...
John Holmes. Excellent Writers , and , when under- food , make ' em your own by frequent Compofition and an attentive fedulous Imitation . OBJ . But are there not Rhetorical Treatifes enough already extant for this Purpose ? What ...
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... excellent Introduction to the Claffics ; where thefe Tropes are judicioufly explain'd , and may , if the Teacher pleases , be read with much Profit to the Learner , before the Explication following . ANNOTATIONS . THE " THE quoque ...
... excellent Introduction to the Claffics ; where thefe Tropes are judicioufly explain'd , and may , if the Teacher pleases , be read with much Profit to the Learner , before the Explication following . ANNOTATIONS . THE " THE quoque ...
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alfo call'd alſo ANAPHORA ANNOTATIONS Arguments atque autem Cafe Cafu Cicero confifts dicere effe enim EPIZEUXIS erit etiam Expreffion faid fame fays fhall fhew fhould Figures firft fome fpeak fuch funt hæc himſelf Homer HOMOIOTELEUTON igitur illa Inft ISOCRATES juft laft likewife LONGINUS malè Matth METONYMY mihi moft moſt muſt neque nifi nihil nobis Numbers o'er obferves omnes Orator Oratory Ovid Paffions PARAGOGE Perfon PERIPHRASIS Pfalm PLATO pleafing PLOCE POLYPTOTON POLYSYNDETON poteft Prov quæ quafi quàm quibus quid quidem Quint QUINTILIAN quis quod quoque Rhetoric Rhetoricians SECT SECTION Stile Sublimity Synecdoche tamen thefe theſe Things thofe thro tibi tion tis call'd Treatife Tropes Verbis verò viii Virg whofe Words ἐκ ἐν καὶ τὰ τε τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῖς τὸν
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Page 86 - And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Page 82 - Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into...
Page 52 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Page 85 - And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers; unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.
Page 45 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Page 83 - 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.
Page 83 - 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. But when, or where ?— this world was made for Caesar.
Page 86 - For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me. Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come: that Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should show light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
Page 41 - The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
Page 22 - In vain he thus attempts her mind to move With tears, and pray'rs, and late-repenting love. Disdainfully she look'd; then turning round, But fix'd her eyes unmov'd upon the ground, And what he says and swears, regards no more Than the deaf rocks, when the loud billows roar; But whirl'd away, to shun his hateful sight, Hid in the forest and the shades of night; Then sought Sichaeus thro' the shady grove, Who answer'd all her cares, and equal'd all her love.