The art of rhetorick concisely and compleatly handled exemplified out of holy writ, and with a compendious and perspicuous comment, fitted to the capacities of such as have had a smatch of learning, or are otherwise ingenious. By J.B. master of the free-school of Kinfare in Staffordshire.
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The art of rhetorick concisely and compleatly handled exemplified out of holy writ, and with a compendious and perspicuous comment, fitted to the capacities of such as have had a smatch of learning, or are otherwise ingenious. By J.B. master of the free-school of Kinfare in Staffordshire.
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Barton, John, master of the free school of Kinfare.
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[London] :: Printed for Nicolas Alsop, and are to be sold at the Angel in Popes-head-alley,
1634.
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Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800.
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"The art of rhetorick concisely and compleatly handled exemplified out of holy writ, and with a compendious and perspicuous comment, fitted to the capacities of such as have had a smatch of learning, or are otherwise ingenious. By J.B. master of the free-school of Kinfare in Staffordshire." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A05257.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 11, 2025.
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The Comment.
a) That is to say, It is the Art of trimming, decking, garnishing the Oration, with fine, wit∣tie, pithie, moving, pleasing words, cla••ses, and sentences in the passages and style of speech.
b) This word Trope, is as much as to say, a borrowed speech, so that when any word leaves
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his native, that is, his proper signification, ••••d assumes a borrowed, we say it is Tropicall: Although some speeches are grown so common, that they are taken to be proper; as, Correct me, O Lord, for Chastise me, O Lord, the Effect for the Cause: but so usuall, that few perhaps would note it. c) See Note 6.
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