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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Title: 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.
Author: Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679.
Publication: London :: Printed by T.N. for Humphrey Moseley ...,; 1654.
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Subject terms: English language -- Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800.
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XVI. To a Mother.

Madam,

THis short time of absence make me sensible of that great good which Nature gave me, when she ordain'd you to be the Parent & me the child; for now I feel my self deprived of those joyes, which your presence was wont to afford me; now I want those lovefull aspects, wherewith your in∣dulgent eye was wont to solace me. In a word, I want all things, which an affectionate mother did ever bestow upon an undeserving, yet dutifull child, for such is

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