The Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres; Or, An Introduction to Languages, Poetry, Rhetorick, History, Moral Philosophy, Physicks, &c. ...W. Strahan, 1769 - Education |
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... please , and move the paffions ; fo there are three kinds of eloquence , which produce those effects , generally called the plain or fimple , the fublime , and the mixed . g Optimus quifque legendus eft , fed diligenter , ac pene ad ...
... please , and move the paffions ; fo there are three kinds of eloquence , which produce those effects , generally called the plain or fimple , the fublime , and the mixed . g Optimus quifque legendus eft , fed diligenter , ac pene ad ...
Page 45
... please . In a word , the fame obfervation may be made on this fpecies of writing , as on thofe fimple , but elegant enterain- ments , where all the dishes are of an exquifite taste , but nothing admitted that is either too much forced ...
... please . In a word , the fame obfervation may be made on this fpecies of writing , as on thofe fimple , but elegant enterain- ments , where all the dishes are of an exquifite taste , but nothing admitted that is either too much forced ...
Page 51
... please . The Grecians gave it a very expreffive and fignificant name api . * Apeλng intimates a plain kind of life , frugal , modest , and decent ; devoid of luxury or pomp ; that is in want of nothing , and at the fame time has nothing ...
... please . The Grecians gave it a very expreffive and fignificant name api . * Apeλng intimates a plain kind of life , frugal , modest , and decent ; devoid of luxury or pomp ; that is in want of nothing , and at the fame time has nothing ...
Page 68
... please the auditors ; fuch as academical orations , com- pliments to potentates , fome fort of panegyrics , and the like , where liberty is given to difplay all the fpendor A. a Y M. Antonius ait ( 1. 1. de Orat . 94. ) a fe difertos ...
... please the auditors ; fuch as academical orations , com- pliments to potentates , fome fort of panegyrics , and the like , where liberty is given to difplay all the fpendor A. a Y M. Antonius ait ( 1. 1. de Orat . 94. ) a fe difertos ...
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... please the audience ; but fo as not to create or give them any difguft : for this effect is ge- nerally produced by thofe things which strike us at firft with a lively fenfe of pleasure , without our being very well able to give any ...
... please the audience ; but fo as not to create or give them any difguft : for this effect is ge- nerally produced by thofe things which strike us at firft with a lively fenfe of pleasure , without our being very well able to give any ...
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