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... thing to discourse about , and the right way of saying it . " 84 Rhetoric was one of the main subjects taught in the schools of England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.85 The rhetoricians prescribed the employment , " for ...
... thing to discourse about , and the right way of saying it . " 84 Rhetoric was one of the main subjects taught in the schools of England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.85 The rhetoricians prescribed the employment , " for ...
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... thing that brute beastes should obey the Lawe of nature , and men . . . should fight against Nature , " for " not only Stockdoues and Pigions , but also the most wilde beasts , haue a Naturall feeling of this thing [ wed- lock ] . " ' 5 ...
... thing that brute beastes should obey the Lawe of nature , and men . . . should fight against Nature , " for " not only Stockdoues and Pigions , but also the most wilde beasts , haue a Naturall feeling of this thing [ wed- lock ] . " ' 5 ...
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... things " or " comparing or liking of looke , with looke , shape , with shape , and one thing with an other " is exemplified in such expressions as " He looks like a Tiger , a man would think he would eate one , his countenance is so ...
... things " or " comparing or liking of looke , with looke , shape , with shape , and one thing with an other " is exemplified in such expressions as " He looks like a Tiger , a man would think he would eate one , his countenance is so ...
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