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An introduction to the art of rhetorick composed for the benefit of young schollars and others, who have not opportunity of being instructed in the Latine tongue ... / by John Newton ...
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- An introduction to the art of rhetorick composed for the benefit of young schollars and others, who have not opportunity of being instructed in the Latine tongue ... / by John Newton ...
- Author
- Newton, John, 1622-1678.
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- London :: Printed by E.T. and R.H. for Thomas Passenger ... and Ben. Hurlock ...,
- 1671.
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- Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800.
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"An introduction to the art of rhetorick composed for the benefit of young schollars and others, who have not opportunity of being instructed in the Latine tongue ... / by John Newton ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A52267.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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greatly to lament the death of your friends. The Reason is: because death is a common evill: place it Logically thus: We ought not greatly to lament a common evill; but the Death of our friends is a common evill; There∣fore &c. The Reason of the Major is, be∣cause a common evill cannot be eschewed; you may handle it Rhetorically thus.
Wise men do agree that what cannot be avoided, ought patiently to be en∣dured.
The Approbation: That so in not feeling it, it may appear to us, as if it did not par∣ticularly concern us.
The Conclusion: We then do certainly ill, to give our selves over to grief for the departure of our friends, and in some sort to bury our joy, in the same grave with them.