Pascal and Rhetoric: Figural and Persuasive Language in the Scientific Treatises, the Provinciales, and the Pensées |
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... example - despite what it says- of a covering that fits , suits , and is appropriate to the body that it clothes . Al- though its content is a bad figure , it is itself an example of good metaphor . The same demonstration is repeated in ...
... example - despite what it says- of a covering that fits , suits , and is appropriate to the body that it clothes . Al- though its content is a bad figure , it is itself an example of good metaphor . The same demonstration is repeated in ...
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... example of the model is an example of metaphor : the verdant tree , the mellifluous song , and so on , are no different from the hot fire , that is , they are not natural and proper but metaphoric substitutes for the natural and proper ...
... example of the model is an example of metaphor : the verdant tree , the mellifluous song , and so on , are no different from the hot fire , that is , they are not natural and proper but metaphoric substitutes for the natural and proper ...
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... example of the " pratique de notre Société pour la charité envers le prochain " ( VIII : 404b - 405a ) , the Jesuit interlocutor in Letter VIII cites a maxim from Vasquez as an example to illustrate this general principle and to show an ...
... example of the " pratique de notre Société pour la charité envers le prochain " ( VIII : 404b - 405a ) , the Jesuit interlocutor in Letter VIII cites a maxim from Vasquez as an example to illustrate this general principle and to show an ...
Contents
Logic and Rhetoric | 1 |
Natures Visibility | 37 |
Persuasion | 72 |
Copyright | |
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Pascal and Rhetoric: Figural and Persuasive Language in the Scientific ... Erec R. Koch Limited preview - 1997 |
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Fire in the Dark: Essays on Pascal's Pensées and Provinciales Charles M. Natoli No preview available - 2005 |
La littérature, le XVIIe siècle et nous: dialogue transatlantique Hélène Merlin-Kajman Limited preview - 2008 |