The Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres; Or, An Introduction to Languages, Poetry, Rhetorick, History, Moral Philosophy, Physicks, &c. ...W. Strahan, 1769 - Education |
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... treated by M. Mafcaron , in the funeral oration of M. Turenne The fame topic taken from M. Flechier DESCRIPTION S. 21 22 The retired life of M. de Lamoignon in the country , during the vacation II . The modefly of M. Turenne . His ...
... treated by M. Mafcaron , in the funeral oration of M. Turenne The fame topic taken from M. Flechier DESCRIPTION S. 21 22 The retired life of M. de Lamoignon in the country , during the vacation II . The modefly of M. Turenne . His ...
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... treated tranfiently of the other two , which it may be faid to include in fome measure . d Cæterum , fentientibus jam tum optime , duæ res impedimento fue- unt : quod & longa confuetudo aliter docendi fecerat legem , & c . Quint , 1. 2 ...
... treated tranfiently of the other two , which it may be faid to include in fome measure . d Cæterum , fentientibus jam tum optime , duæ res impedimento fue- unt : quod & longa confuetudo aliter docendi fecerat legem , & c . Quint , 1. 2 ...
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... treated the art with fo much . fuccefs . What is most important in rhetoric does not con- fift so much in the precepts , as in the reflections that attend them , and fhew their use . A man may know the number of the feveral parts of an ...
... treated the art with fo much . fuccefs . What is most important in rhetoric does not con- fift so much in the precepts , as in the reflections that attend them , and fhew their use . A man may know the number of the feveral parts of an ...
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... treated of two kinds of narration , the one dry and unadorned , the other too luxuriant , too florid and embellished . m Both , fays he , are " faulty ; but the firft efpecially , as it denotes fte- " rility , which is worse than the ...
... treated of two kinds of narration , the one dry and unadorned , the other too luxuriant , too florid and embellished . m Both , fays he , are " faulty ; but the firft efpecially , as it denotes fte- " rility , which is worse than the ...
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... treat his pupils with bitter or re- " proachful language ; for nothing gives them so " much averfion to learning , as the being continually " reproved with a gloomy air , the feeming effect of " hatred . " We fee by this admirable ...
... treat his pupils with bitter or re- " proachful language ; for nothing gives them so " much averfion to learning , as the being continually " reproved with a gloomy air , the feeming effect of " hatred . " We fee by this admirable ...
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