LIV. Another to him in Fustian.
SIR,
MY last was from Dunstable, and (though I am in person removed thence yet) I fear the matter of this may come from thence too, being not as yet sufficiently rudi∣mented,
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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- 1654.
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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 1, 2024.
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in your Accademy for such susceptions. I must tell you (with some regret) that I find, not an Academick (except the noble Brittan) in all our voisinage; so that if we converse at all, it must be with Labradors and such out of whose hebetu∣dinous cerebrosity, we may as soon extract A••rum potabile, as the Elixer of any knowledge; Their querilous outcry is, that the continuall siccity of this season, ha's inusted all their herbiferous grounds, which mny happily breed a dearth of Aliment, as there is already of litterature in these parts. Thus much ex obliquo, now to the purpose, I hope your late obstreperous Alarmes, have not interturbed the procedure of our noble Authors Miscelany, which is a principall point in my Card. Sir, believe it without some Missive of Consolation from you, the Country will soon put me into a Chagrin, therefore be no longer costive, as you love
10 Aug.
Your servant, T.B.