A Practical System of Rhetoric; Or, The Principles and Rules of Style: Inferred from Examples of Writing. With an Historical Dissertation on English Style |
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... Cicero , of the course pursued by Zeuxis , when employed by the Crotonians to paint the picture of a beautiful female . The city of Crotonia was celebrated for the beauty of its females . Zeuxis requested , that those esteemed most ...
... Cicero , of the course pursued by Zeuxis , when employed by the Crotonians to paint the picture of a beautiful female . The city of Crotonia was celebrated for the beauty of its females . Zeuxis requested , that those esteemed most ...
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... Cicero valde placebit . " * On this principle Homer , and Virgil , and Demos- thenes , and Cicero have been admired , wherever they have been known . Here also is the only foundation of hope to the aspirant after literary immortality ...
... Cicero valde placebit . " * On this principle Homer , and Virgil , and Demos- thenes , and Cicero have been admired , wherever they have been known . Here also is the only foundation of hope to the aspirant after literary immortality ...
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... Cicero has said that two things are incumbent on the historian - to avoid stating what is false , and fully and fairly to place before us the truth . These two things the historian professes to do , and fidelity implies that he is true ...
... Cicero has said that two things are incumbent on the historian - to avoid stating what is false , and fully and fairly to place before us the truth . These two things the historian professes to do , and fidelity implies that he is true ...
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... Cicero and Atticus , looks down with an honest disdain on the wealth - blown insects of modern times , neither enlightened by knowledge , nor ennobled by virtue . In the possession , indeed , of what he has attained , in that rest and ...
... Cicero and Atticus , looks down with an honest disdain on the wealth - blown insects of modern times , neither enlightened by knowledge , nor ennobled by virtue . In the possession , indeed , of what he has attained , in that rest and ...
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acquired admired Æneid allusions amplification applied argument attained called cause caution Cicero circumstances clauses common comparison composition connected connexion direct the attention distinct duction effect emotions of beauty emotions of taste English language epithets Eurystheus example excite emotions exercise exhibit expression familiar favourable feelings fitted to excite frequently give given happy Hence illustration imagination implies importance improvement inferred inquiry instances intellectual habits ject judgment kind knowledge labour language literary taste manner of writing meaning ment mentioned metaphor metonymy mind models of excellence nature nexion Numidia objects and scenes opinions ornaments of style passage period perspicuity philosophical philosophy of language phrases present principles productions pronoun proposition racter readers reason refer remarks resemblance Rhetoric rules sense sentence skill speak student sublimity symbolical arts synecdoche tence things thou thoughts tion traits vivacity words writer Zeuxis