The Port Folio, Volume 5Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1811 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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... and from the quickness with which the spirits of turpentine evaporate and the advantage afforded by heating or burning in the picture ( by which the appearance called sinking in is entirely done away ) the artist is enabled to take ...
... and from the quickness with which the spirits of turpentine evaporate and the advantage afforded by heating or burning in the picture ( by which the appearance called sinking in is entirely done away ) the artist is enabled to take ...
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Our attention is particularly called , this evening , to the constituent parts of a rezular discourse or oration . These have been considered by rhetoricians as reducible to six heads , viz . Exordium , Narration , Proposition ...
Our attention is particularly called , this evening , to the constituent parts of a rezular discourse or oration . These have been considered by rhetoricians as reducible to six heads , viz . Exordium , Narration , Proposition ...
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This should necessarily be as short as perspicuity will permit , lest the attention of the hearer should be fatigued before he is called upon to consider the arguments which may be offered in support of the case .
This should necessarily be as short as perspicuity will permit , lest the attention of the hearer should be fatigued before he is called upon to consider the arguments which may be offered in support of the case .
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The Refutation , or as it is by some called the Confutation , is an answer to all our adversary's arguments , and destroys the force of his objections whether probable or absolutely offered , showing them to be absurd , false , or ...
The Refutation , or as it is by some called the Confutation , is an answer to all our adversary's arguments , and destroys the force of his objections whether probable or absolutely offered , showing them to be absurd , false , or ...
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most all the passions are called into action ; but more especially resentment and pity . The Peroration is generally the most impressive , and of course the most important part of the oration : the Exordium being intended merely to ...
most all the passions are called into action ; but more especially resentment and pity . The Peroration is generally the most impressive , and of course the most important part of the oration : the Exordium being intended merely to ...
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| Title | The Port Folio, Volume 5 Volumes 40-42; Volumes 220-227 of American periodical series, 1800-1850 |
| Contributors | Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins, John Elihu Hall |
| Publisher | Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1811 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 11 Apr 2019 |
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