A Text-book on Rhetoric (1882) |
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Page 111
... things - objects in the outer , the ma- terial , world . Some of these things we only see or hear , some we see and touch , and some we see , touch , taste , and smell . By this use of ... things of The Comparison - Things first Named . 111.
... things - objects in the outer , the ma- terial , world . Some of these things we only see or hear , some we see and touch , and some we see , touch , taste , and smell . By this use of ... things of The Comparison - Things first Named . 111.
Page 112
... things , wherever they exist , stand in many striking relations to each other . In certain remarkable qualities or offices , real or imagined , things are ( 1 ) like each other , or ( 2 ) unlike each other , or , speaking generally ...
... things , wherever they exist , stand in many striking relations to each other . In certain remarkable qualities or offices , real or imagined , things are ( 1 ) like each other , or ( 2 ) unlike each other , or , speaking generally ...
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... things sustain to each other- likeness in quality or in function . We come now to a figure which is based upon the re- lation of unlikeness between things . This unlikeness may be of many grades . It may extend even to one hundred and ...
... things sustain to each other- likeness in quality or in function . We come now to a figure which is based upon the re- lation of unlikeness between things . This unlikeness may be of many grades . It may extend even to one hundred and ...
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