a) A Generall word is that which compre∣hends singular words under it:* 1.1 as a Beast com∣prehends an Horse, a Cow, a Lion, &c. A Stone comprehends an Adamant, a Flint, a Peble, &c. So River here, which comprehends Thames, Trent, Tyber, &c. is put for Euphrates. b) They did not onely devoure widows houses, but any sort of poore people; and not onely houses, but any kinde of goods. The Prophet meaneth every Cedar, and every Oak, though he addeth a seeming limitation:* 1.2 & commonly when to a gene∣rall word a limitation is added,* 1.3 it makes it par∣ticular. If I say, The disciple, for Iohn, it is a Synechdoche of the Genus; but if I say, The be∣loved disciple, for Iohn, it is a Particular, and no Trope. Note,* 1.4 that sometimes in English,
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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A05257.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 12, 2025.
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though I cannot directly finde it so in Latine, one particular word is put for another: as Matt. 5. 33. Whosoever putteth away his wife, ex∣cept it be for fornication, &c. where forni••a∣tion, being one manner of Incontinency, is put for another, viz. Adultery. For the married by uncleannesse are guilty of adultery properly•• not fornication. So also one part is put sometimes for another. Psal. 16. 11. Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; where soul is put for bodie. Note also,* 1.5 that Rhetoricians make such speeches be∣long to this Trope, as we finde 2. King. 5. 27. He went out of his presence a leper as white as ••now. He might (say they) have said•• As white as wooll, milk, chalk, &c. so that by ••now is meant any white thing. But I rather think this is no Trope, because he is not tied to mean any other thing; nor need I seek any such Resolution of the word to understand his me••••∣ing.
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* 1.1
The G••nu•• here is tak•••• sometimes for the logicall Spe∣cies, though Keckerman be more curi••••s.
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Quoties limi∣tatio additur, Tropus tolli∣••ur. Keck.
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* 1.3
Rhet. But it is where the limi∣tatio•• is inten∣ti••••all also, not meerly verball.
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Note 8.
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Note 9.