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... sense . Simple as its language is , the terseness of the following apophthegm of Tacitus defies the literal translator : Eloquentia , sicut flamma , materie alitur , motu excitatur , et urendo clarescit . ' Mr. Pitt was challenged to ...
... sense . Simple as its language is , the terseness of the following apophthegm of Tacitus defies the literal translator : Eloquentia , sicut flamma , materie alitur , motu excitatur , et urendo clarescit . ' Mr. Pitt was challenged to ...
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... the epithet úŋλòs , which he confers on Thucydides , and ioxvòs , which he appropriates to Xenophon , ' the perfection of mediocrity . ' Rhet . iii . 9 , seq . sentence , not by the sense , nor by the 8 CHARACTERISTIC DIFFERENCES BETWEEN.
... the epithet úŋλòs , which he confers on Thucydides , and ioxvòs , which he appropriates to Xenophon , ' the perfection of mediocrity . ' Rhet . iii . 9 , seq . sentence , not by the sense , nor by the 8 CHARACTERISTIC DIFFERENCES BETWEEN.
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Henry Musgrave Wilkins. sentence , not by the sense , nor by the punctuation , but by the rhythm . The new pursuit of symmetry and orna- ment was , however , carried to a vicious excess . Aristotle , * Cicero , † and Quintilian ...
Henry Musgrave Wilkins. sentence , not by the sense , nor by the punctuation , but by the rhythm . The new pursuit of symmetry and orna- ment was , however , carried to a vicious excess . Aristotle , * Cicero , † and Quintilian ...
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... sense in a written form , as when conveyed to the other from the lips of an orator . ' It is , indeed , a condition of success in all literature and eloquence , that it be studiously wrought into unison with the aesthetical qualities of ...
... sense in a written form , as when conveyed to the other from the lips of an orator . ' It is , indeed , a condition of success in all literature and eloquence , that it be studiously wrought into unison with the aesthetical qualities of ...
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... αἰδέσονται ; —οἳ ἀπὸ τῶν πατέρων ἄρχονται καταφρονεῖν τῶν πατέρων , κ.τ.λ. It would be futile to pursue this topic here ; as the sense of the particle is liable to almost indefinite variation with GREEK AND ENGLISH COMPOSITION . 15.
... αἰδέσονται ; —οἳ ἀπὸ τῶν πατέρων ἄρχονται καταφρονεῖν τῶν πατέρων , κ.τ.λ. It would be futile to pursue this topic here ; as the sense of the particle is liable to almost indefinite variation with GREEK AND ENGLISH COMPOSITION . 15.
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