Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Bind 1Richard Phillips, 1808 - 623 sider |
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Side 25
... speaker , when we remember how strong and low gene- ral a passion curiosity is . The word itself has supplied a name to a very voluminous class of literary productions , the professed object of which is to gratify their readers with ...
... speaker , when we remember how strong and low gene- ral a passion curiosity is . The word itself has supplied a name to a very voluminous class of literary productions , the professed object of which is to gratify their readers with ...
Side 156
... speaker : though this metaphor , like some of those which I have mentioned , is now so common , that its force as a figure is greatly weakened . Sometimes even a metaphor or comparison taken from an infe- rior subject will have this ...
... speaker : though this metaphor , like some of those which I have mentioned , is now so common , that its force as a figure is greatly weakened . Sometimes even a metaphor or comparison taken from an infe- rior subject will have this ...
Side 214
... speaker , Socrates , it may be regarded as a dis- quisition . The professed intention of the au- thor is to describe and define the nature of jus- tice ; this he does by a fanciful analogy , in the tracing of which he pursues the ...
... speaker , Socrates , it may be regarded as a dis- quisition . The professed intention of the au- thor is to describe and define the nature of jus- tice ; this he does by a fanciful analogy , in the tracing of which he pursues the ...
Side 217
... speaker is not perceived until the conclusion he aims to establish strikes with irresistible force upon the mind . But however useful the analytical method may be where a prejudice is to be removed , or a new truth presented to the mind ...
... speaker is not perceived until the conclusion he aims to establish strikes with irresistible force upon the mind . But however useful the analytical method may be where a prejudice is to be removed , or a new truth presented to the mind ...
Side 224
... speaker and the subject . The introduction , says Cicero , must make the hearers docile or tractable ; that is , it must render them attentive to what is to be said ; but if the subject is of sufficient importance to interest the ...
... speaker and the subject . The introduction , says Cicero , must make the hearers docile or tractable ; that is , it must render them attentive to what is to be said ; but if the subject is of sufficient importance to interest the ...
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