The academie of eloquence containing a compleat English rhetorique, exemplified with common-places and formes digested into an easie and methodical way to speak and write fluently according to the mode of the present times : together with letters both amorous and moral upon emergent occasions / by Tho. Blount, Gent.
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The academie of eloquence containing a compleat English rhetorique, exemplified with common-places and formes digested into an easie and methodical way to speak and write fluently according to the mode of the present times : together with letters both amorous and moral upon emergent occasions / by Tho. Blount, Gent.
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Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679.
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London :: Printed by T.N. for Humphrey Moseley ...,
1654.
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English language -- Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800.
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"The academie of eloquence containing a compleat English rhetorique, exemplified with common-places and formes digested into an easie and methodical way to speak and write fluently according to the mode of the present times : together with letters both amorous and moral upon emergent occasions / by Tho. Blount, Gent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28452.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 7, 2024.
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X. A Letter from a Commander in war to his Mistress.
Madam,
THough I have lately been brought even to the confines of Deaths Kingdom, yet I reteine so much strength, as to tell you I am alive; and must crawe leave to renue that •• protestation, which I have heretofore so often made, not to be willing to live but for your service. The scars of war in some sort resemble the wounds of love, since those which I received, have not at all diminished the desire I had to serve my Religion, and these, which you gave me, have increas'd that passion to honor you which reignes within my soul. My hand has not strength eno••gh to write more, and its weakness may serve as a proof of my affection,
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which shall be always greater then my power, as the effects of my obedience shall ever be lesse, then my devotion to serve you, all days of my life, in quality of
Madam,
The dearest lover of your best selfe, T. B.
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