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.
Smith, John, Gent., Sergeant, John, 1622-1707.
English Examples.
Ambition seeks to be next to the best; after that, to be equal with the best: then, to be chief and above the best.
Where the richnesse did invite the eyes, the fashion did entertain the eyes, and the device did teach the eyes.
We are born to sorrow, passe our time in sorrow, end our days in sorrow.
Either arm their lives, or take away their lives.
Since the time that concord was taken from the city, liberty was taken away, fidelity was taken away, friendship was taken away.
