The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Tom 1A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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... In words , as fashions , the same rule will hold ; Alike fantastic , if too new or old : Be not the first by whom the new are try'd , Nor yet the last to lay the old aside † . PART III .... By the use of good words new - modelled . THE ...
... In words , as fashions , the same rule will hold ; Alike fantastic , if too new or old : Be not the first by whom the new are try'd , Nor yet the last to lay the old aside † . PART III .... By the use of good words new - modelled . THE ...
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