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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LXXVI. ANSWER.

SIR

YOurs I have received, read, and read again, and the more I read it, the more I have a a mind to read it, such are the incentives of your heaven-inspired lines, which as they clearly de∣monstrate the truth of that Maxime of a modern Author, that Eternity is the Port and Sabbath of all humane Contemplations: So, since my more earthy Soul and lesse heavenly cogitations are not able in due manner to comprehend them; I wrap my self in this your learned sheet and say to it (with equall wonder) As Aristotle once did to Euripus, Q••uia ego non capio te, tu capias me

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