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 14, 2024.
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XXXIV. To a Lady, residing in a Town that had lately bin besiegd.
Madam,
AFter the disquiet of your late Alarms, I am bold to congratulate the re-enjoyment of your wonted repose, which (had I bin Generall) no cause nor quarrel should have made me hazard; since in all things I value your content above my own; My regard to your safety had bin in such case motive enough with mee, to have sus∣pended the chastisment of that mutinous City. Madam, If (as I hope and pray) you are now both free from dis••uietude and from fear; I have my hearts wish; desiring (as you know) nothing more, then by continued devotion to your
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self and service; to purchase at length the esteem of
Madam,
Your most faithfull servant, T.B.
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