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 55
... passions , or a farther advancing of that execution already done ; whoever did ill , or acted in prejudice of his integrity , good nature , or worth , would of necessity act with greater cruelty towards himself , than he who scrupled ...
... passions , or a farther advancing of that execution already done ; whoever did ill , or acted in prejudice of his integrity , good nature , or worth , would of necessity act with greater cruelty towards himself , than he who scrupled ...
Page 82
... common principle of action but a blind obedience to the passions of their ruler . --Burke's Vindication of Natural Society . This work is professedly written in imitation of Boling- broke's 82 Composition and Stylc .
... common principle of action but a blind obedience to the passions of their ruler . --Burke's Vindication of Natural Society . This work is professedly written in imitation of Boling- broke's 82 Composition and Stylc .
Page 83
... passions of the audience ; especially at Rome , where Tully spoke , and with whose writings young divines ( I mean those among them who read old authors ) are more conversant than with those of Demosthenes , who , by many degrees ...
... passions of the audience ; especially at Rome , where Tully spoke , and with whose writings young divines ( I mean those among them who read old authors ) are more conversant than with those of Demosthenes , who , by many degrees ...
Page 92
... passions , with which Grac- chus burned in the Forum , and shook the assemblies of a severer people . - Ferguson's Hist . of Civil Society . Human society is in its most corrupted state at that period when men have lost their original ...
... passions , with which Grac- chus burned in the Forum , and shook the assemblies of a severer people . - Ferguson's Hist . of Civil Society . Human society is in its most corrupted state at that period when men have lost their original ...
Page 96
... passion , and , till informed of its cause , to be disposed rather to take part against it . -Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments . VI . In the members of a sentence where two objects are either compared or contrasted , some resemblance ...
... passion , and , till informed of its cause , to be disposed rather to take part against it . -Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments . VI . In the members of a sentence where two objects are either compared or contrasted , some resemblance ...
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