Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University, Volume 2Hilliard and Metcalf, 1810 - Oratory |
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... Latin the noun had probably not deviated from the primitive idea , as it has done in our lan- guage . Nor is this meaning altogether unexampled , as applied even to the modern English . There is in the Paradise Lost a passage , where ...
... Latin the noun had probably not deviated from the primitive idea , as it has done in our lan- guage . Nor is this meaning altogether unexampled , as applied even to the modern English . There is in the Paradise Lost a passage , where ...
Page 151
... Latin . The principles however are alike applica- to all other languages . The Roman writers make latinity the principal standard of their purity ; as Aristotle and the other Greek rhetoricians , in delivering the same rules , call it ...
... Latin . The principles however are alike applica- to all other languages . The Roman writers make latinity the principal standard of their purity ; as Aristotle and the other Greek rhetoricians , in delivering the same rules , call it ...
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... Latin language , is of Greek origin . When they came to apply therefore that rule of Grecian philology , which denominates every word of foreign extraction a barbarism , they were obliged to make an express exception in fa- vor of words ...
... Latin language , is of Greek origin . When they came to apply therefore that rule of Grecian philology , which denominates every word of foreign extraction a barbarism , they were obliged to make an express exception in fa- vor of words ...
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... Latin , the Arabic , and the modern French , have all contributed plen- tiful streams to this deep and rapid flood . Con- quest , commerce , religion , and science , have all concurred to enrich , as well as to complicate the modes of ...
... Latin , the Arabic , and the modern French , have all contributed plen- tiful streams to this deep and rapid flood . Con- quest , commerce , religion , and science , have all concurred to enrich , as well as to complicate the modes of ...
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... Latin ; per aspicio , to look through . Perspicuity then is the quality of being easily seen through . It is according to Quinctilian the first virtue of eloquence . For every spe . cies of written composition it is doubtless a virtue ...
... Latin ; per aspicio , to look through . Perspicuity then is the quality of being easily seen through . It is according to Quinctilian the first virtue of eloquence . For every spe . cies of written composition it is doubtless a virtue ...
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