The Writer's Handbook, a Guide to the Art of Composition, Embracing a General Treatise on Composition and Style: Instruction in English Composition, with Exercises for Paraphrasing; and an Elaborate Letter-writer's Vademecum, in which are Numerous Rules and Suggestions Relating to the Epistolary Art, Volumes 1-3 |
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Page 51
... Cicero been repeatedly betrayed into the same species of affectation . Balbus was general of the artillery to Cæsar ; Cicero procured a regiment for Curtius ; Tedius took the body of Clodius into his 5 * Propriety of Style . 51.
... Cicero been repeatedly betrayed into the same species of affectation . Balbus was general of the artillery to Cæsar ; Cicero procured a regiment for Curtius ; Tedius took the body of Clodius into his 5 * Propriety of Style . 51.
Page 77
... Cicero was oppressed by a new and cruel affliction , the death of his beloved Tullia ; which happened soon after her divorce from Dolabella , whose manners and humours were entirely disagreeable to her . - Middleton's Life of Cicero ...
... Cicero was oppressed by a new and cruel affliction , the death of his beloved Tullia ; which happened soon after her divorce from Dolabella , whose manners and humours were entirely disagreeable to her . - Middleton's Life of Cicero ...
Page 101
... Cicero : this subject he has studied with the utmost care ; and he was fond , perhaps to excess , of what he calls the " plena ac numerosa oratio . " We need only open his writings , to find instances that will render the effect of ...
... Cicero : this subject he has studied with the utmost care ; and he was fond , perhaps to excess , of what he calls the " plena ac numerosa oratio . " We need only open his writings , to find instances that will render the effect of ...
Page 102
... Cicero de Oratore , and Quinctilian de Institutione Oratoria . The subject is briefly discussed by Aristotle , de Rhetorica , lib . iii . cap . viii . * Johnson's Rambler , No. 94. - See likewise Dr. 102 Composition and Style .
... Cicero de Oratore , and Quinctilian de Institutione Oratoria . The subject is briefly discussed by Aristotle , de Rhetorica , lib . iii . cap . viii . * Johnson's Rambler , No. 94. - See likewise Dr. 102 Composition and Style .
Page 104
... Cicero . That great master of persuasion , taking notice of this remarkable circum- stance , assigns it as an evidence of the superior difficulty of his favourite art . There may be some truth in the observation ; but whatever the cause ...
... Cicero . That great master of persuasion , taking notice of this remarkable circum- stance , assigns it as an evidence of the superior difficulty of his favourite art . There may be some truth in the observation ; but whatever the cause ...
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