An Introduction to the Classics: Containing a Short Discourse on Their Excellencies; and Directions how to Study Them to Advantage. With an Essay on the Nature and Use of Those Emphatical and Beautiful Figures which Give Strength and Ornament to WritingC. Rivington, 1737 - 271 psl. |
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... tion and Ornament of that ineftima- ble Book , which came from Heaven to direct Mankind in the Way thither . Some vain Critics and half - witted Phi- lologers have prefum'd to make Ob- jections jections against the Style and Propri- ety ...
... tion and Ornament of that ineftima- ble Book , which came from Heaven to direct Mankind in the Way thither . Some vain Critics and half - witted Phi- lologers have prefum'd to make Ob- jections jections against the Style and Propri- ety ...
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... tion ; and yet all the Freedom and winning Familiarity of elegant Con- versation . Here I cannot but particularly men- tion Xenophon's Sympofium , wherein he has given us an eafy and beautiful Defcription of a very lively and de ...
... tion ; and yet all the Freedom and winning Familiarity of elegant Con- versation . Here I cannot but particularly men- tion Xenophon's Sympofium , wherein he has given us an eafy and beautiful Defcription of a very lively and de ...
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... tion , he smooths his Lines with foft Syllables , and flows in gay and melt- ing Numbers . Scarce any Reader is fo much a Stoic , but good Humour fteals upon him ; and he reads with fomething of the Temper which the Author was in when ...
... tion , he smooths his Lines with foft Syllables , and flows in gay and melt- ing Numbers . Scarce any Reader is fo much a Stoic , but good Humour fteals upon him ; and he reads with fomething of the Temper which the Author was in when ...
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... tion , and beautiful Propriety of Lan- guage . No Man in his right Mind would have People to ftudy them with Neglect and Exclufion of other Parts of useful Knowledge , and good Learn- ing . No , let a Man furnish himself with all the ...
... tion , and beautiful Propriety of Lan- guage . No Man in his right Mind would have People to ftudy them with Neglect and Exclufion of other Parts of useful Knowledge , and good Learn- ing . No , let a Man furnish himself with all the ...
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... tion , will qualify moft People , who ' duly admire and ftudy their Excellen- cies , to communicate their Thoughts with Energy and Clearnefs . Some Gentlemen , deeply read in old Systems : of Philofophy , and the abftrufer Part of ...
... tion , will qualify moft People , who ' duly admire and ftudy their Excellen- cies , to communicate their Thoughts with Energy and Clearnefs . Some Gentlemen , deeply read in old Systems : of Philofophy , and the abftrufer Part of ...
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