The mysteries of love & eloquence, or, The arts of wooing and complementing as they are manag'd in the Spring Garden, Hide Park, the New Exchange, and other eminent places : a work in which is drawn to the life the deportments of the most accomplisht persons, the mode of their courtly entertainments, treatments of their ladies at balls, their accustom'd sports, drolls and fancies, the witchcrafts of their perswasive language in their approaches, or other more secret dispatches ...
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The mysteries of love & eloquence, or, The arts of wooing and complementing as they are manag'd in the Spring Garden, Hide Park, the New Exchange, and other eminent places : a work in which is drawn to the life the deportments of the most accomplisht persons, the mode of their courtly entertainments, treatments of their ladies at balls, their accustom'd sports, drolls and fancies, the witchcrafts of their perswasive language in their approaches, or other more secret dispatches ...
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Phillips, Edward, 1630-1696?
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London :: Printed by James Rawlins for Obadiah Blagrave,
1685.
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Erotic literature.
English language -- Rhyme.
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"The mysteries of love & eloquence, or, The arts of wooing and complementing as they are manag'd in the Spring Garden, Hide Park, the New Exchange, and other eminent places : a work in which is drawn to the life the deportments of the most accomplisht persons, the mode of their courtly entertainments, treatments of their ladies at balls, their accustom'd sports, drolls and fancies, the witchcrafts of their perswasive language in their approaches, or other more secret dispatches ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A54745.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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CAP. 26. The distribution from the Cause.
Q. Whence is the first distribution?
A. The first distribution is from absolute agreeings.
Q. What are these absolute agreeings?
A. The causes and effects.
Q. What is distribution from the causes?
A. Distribution from the causes, is when the parts are causes of the whole. Here the distribution of perfect into its members is greatly praised.
Q. What is perfect?
A. Perfect is the whole, to which the parts are essential.
Q. What is a member?
A. A member is a part of the whole.
Q. Give example?
A. Grammer is divided into Etymology and Syntaxis; Rhetorick, into Elocution and Action; Logick, into In∣vention and Judgement: for those Arts constituted of those parts.
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Q. What is the principal distribution?
A. When the explication of a longer thing is received.
Q. Give examples?
A. Georg. 1.
What makes glad corn, and how to till the ground,How to plant elms that be so strong and sound;How to guide oxen, cattel how to tend,And how the little pretty be desend,I will declare.—
Q. Give another example?
A. Cic. pro Mur. I understand, O you Judges, that the whole accusation hath three parts, one of which is in re∣prehension of life, another in contention of dignity, the third touching the fault.
Q. How is the second kinde of handling this kinde of argument?
A. Either from the parts to the whole; or from the whole to the parts.
Q. Give example?
A. Cat.
Quintia is fair to many, so to me,I will not therefore this same thing deny;But wholly fair I will not say she's not,True beauty in her there is not a jot.Lesbius fair, in every part most fine;Venus adorn'd her, clear did make her shine.
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