The Port Folio, Volume 5Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1811 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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... heads , viz . Exordium , Narration , Proposition , Confirmation , Refutation , and Peroration , or Conclusion : where these are observed in the order I have mentioned , the discourse must be complete with respect to its form ; its ...
... heads , viz . Exordium , Narration , Proposition , Confirmation , Refutation , and Peroration , or Conclusion : where these are observed in the order I have mentioned , the discourse must be complete with respect to its form ; its ...
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... heads . In this part of our address rhetoricians advise that the strong- est arguments should be placed in the front or at the beginning , the weakest in the middle , and that some few of the best be kept for the conclusion , as a ...
... heads . In this part of our address rhetoricians advise that the strong- est arguments should be placed in the front or at the beginning , the weakest in the middle , and that some few of the best be kept for the conclusion , as a ...
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... have been more elaborate un- der both of these heads , as well as in his Peroration which re- quiring neither a recapitulation of argument , nor an appeal to yet the passions was judiciously confined to a modest and RHETORIC . 29.
... have been more elaborate un- der both of these heads , as well as in his Peroration which re- quiring neither a recapitulation of argument , nor an appeal to yet the passions was judiciously confined to a modest and RHETORIC . 29.
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... head of the harbour , running several miles inland , furnished the first set- tlers with plenty of clams and oysters . These have now become scarce , from being too freely used ; but the neighbouring banks still abound with cod ...
... head of the harbour , running several miles inland , furnished the first set- tlers with plenty of clams and oysters . These have now become scarce , from being too freely used ; but the neighbouring banks still abound with cod ...
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... in my worldly - wise head , A ray of new light sheds a blaze , VOL . V. And back , with the speed of a zealot , I tread The wide metaphysical maze . H Of late , through the Strand , as I saunter'd. THE POLITE SCHOLAR . 49.
... in my worldly - wise head , A ray of new light sheds a blaze , VOL . V. And back , with the speed of a zealot , I tread The wide metaphysical maze . H Of late , through the Strand , as I saunter'd. THE POLITE SCHOLAR . 49.
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