Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 1A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1787 - English language |
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... fhould proceed from his own hand , rather than come into public view under fome very defective and erroneous form . THEY were originally defigned for the initiation of Youth into the study of Belles . * Biographia Britannica . Article ...
... fhould proceed from his own hand , rather than come into public view under fome very defective and erroneous form . THEY were originally defigned for the initiation of Youth into the study of Belles . * Biographia Britannica . Article ...
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... fhould have fuffered in the opinion of men of understanding and I am far from denying , that rhetoric and criticism have fometimes been fo managed as to tend to the corruption , rather than to the improvement , of good taste and true ...
... fhould have fuffered in the opinion of men of understanding and I am far from denying , that rhetoric and criticism have fometimes been fo managed as to tend to the corruption , rather than to the improvement , of good taste and true ...
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... fhould give the ftamp of merit to any compofition rich or fplendid in expreffion , but barren or erroneous in thought . They are the wretched attempts towards an art of this kind which have fo often difgraced oratory , and debased it ...
... fhould give the ftamp of merit to any compofition rich or fplendid in expreffion , but barren or erroneous in thought . They are the wretched attempts towards an art of this kind which have fo often difgraced oratory , and debased it ...
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... fhould tell in general whether he be pleased or not . But allow him more experience in works of this kind , and his Tafte becomes by degrees more exact and enlightened . 8 · II . enlightened . He begins to perceive not 26 TASTE .
... fhould tell in general whether he be pleased or not . But allow him more experience in works of this kind , and his Tafte becomes by degrees more exact and enlightened . 8 · II . enlightened . He begins to perceive not 26 TASTE .
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... fhould maintain that fugar was bitter and tobacco was sweet , no reafonings could avail to prove it . The Taste of fuch a perfon would infal- libly be held to be diseased , merely because it differed fo widely from the Taste of the ...
... fhould maintain that fugar was bitter and tobacco was sweet , no reafonings could avail to prove it . The Taste of fuch a perfon would infal- libly be held to be diseased , merely because it differed fo widely from the Taste of the ...
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