Rhetoric: A Text-book, Designed for Use in Schools and Colleges (1869) |
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... ancient and modern times produced much of their effect by the judicious use of metaphors . * Demosthenes , in one of his orations against Philip , exclaimed : " He is the deadly enemy of the whole city , and of the very ground it stands ...
... ancient and modern times produced much of their effect by the judicious use of metaphors . * Demosthenes , in one of his orations against Philip , exclaimed : " He is the deadly enemy of the whole city , and of the very ground it stands ...
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... ANCIENT IDIOMS . 229 book , " would generally have said " To me is a book " ( mihi est liber ) . The Grecks , though very critical in the use of words , still allowed their best speakers to use two negatives in one expression without ...
... ANCIENT IDIOMS . 229 book , " would generally have said " To me is a book " ( mihi est liber ) . The Grecks , though very critical in the use of words , still allowed their best speakers to use two negatives in one expression without ...
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... ancient history . Its boundaries have not been always the same , but it may properly be said to include the whole of that peninsula between the Euxine and the Adriatic seas , and the islands in the immediate vicinity . ( 2. ) It is , to ...
... ancient history . Its boundaries have not been always the same , but it may properly be said to include the whole of that peninsula between the Euxine and the Adriatic seas , and the islands in the immediate vicinity . ( 2. ) It is , to ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | ix |
PART I | xii |
CHAPTER PAGE I General Expression of Thought and Feeling 17 | xvii |
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