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 6, 2024.
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XVIII. In answer to a Letter of Complement.
Sir,
THat I live (though absent) thus fresh in your memory, I count my glory, and that you write to me, my happiness; which favours, that I may seem in some measure to deserve, I address these, not as satisfactory Acquittances (for such my weak merit, does not aim at) but as respective acknowledgements, which your greater good∣ness commands from me. I have now throughly both seen and felt the Bath, and as I find my self nothing ameliorated in complexion of face, or temperature of body; so is the disposition of my mind to serve you nothing lessened, but does ad∣equately increase, with the obligations of
Sir,
Your unalterable servant, T. B.
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