The mysterie of rhetorique unveil'd wherein above 130 the tropes and figures are severally derived from the Greek into English : together with lively definitions and variety of Latin, English, scriptural, examples, pertinent to each of them apart. Conducing very much to the right understanding of the sense of the letter of the scripture, (the want whereof occasions many dangerous errors this day). Eminently delightful and profitable for young scholars, and others of all sorts, enabling them to discern and imitate the elegancy in any author they read, &c. / by John Smith.

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The mysterie of rhetorique unveil'd wherein above 130 the tropes and figures are severally derived from the Greek into English : together with lively definitions and variety of Latin, English, scriptural, examples, pertinent to each of them apart. Conducing very much to the right understanding of the sense of the letter of the scripture, (the want whereof occasions many dangerous errors this day). Eminently delightful and profitable for young scholars, and others of all sorts, enabling them to discern and imitate the elegancy in any author they read, &c. / by John Smith.
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Smith, John, Gent.
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London :: Printed by E. Cotes for George Eversden ...,
1665.
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"The mysterie of rhetorique unveil'd wherein above 130 the tropes and figures are severally derived from the Greek into English : together with lively definitions and variety of Latin, English, scriptural, examples, pertinent to each of them apart. Conducing very much to the right understanding of the sense of the letter of the scripture, (the want whereof occasions many dangerous errors this day). Eminently delightful and profitable for young scholars, and others of all sorts, enabling them to discern and imitate the elegancy in any author they read, &c. / by John Smith." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A59234.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 7, 2024.

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Scriptural Examples.

Joel 3.20. Judah shall be inhabited for e∣ver; here Judah the son of Jacob, is put for the land of Jewry, which was promised to his po∣sterity, and by them possessed.

Gen. 15.3. A servant with me; that is, in my house.

Gen. 18.3. Depart not I pray thee from thy servant, (i e.) depart not from my tent.

6. When the seat or place is put for the qua∣lity inherent to the same: as,

f Cor; os. Cor pro prudentiâ quae sedem habet in corde, (unde prudentes Cordati dicuntur;) os, pro pud••••e; qui se ore, (i. e.) vulu prodit. Aut ali∣quando cor fortitudinem significat:

Non tibi plus cordis, sed minus oris inest.

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