English Examples of Antimetabole.
Of Eloquent men Crassus is counted the most learned Lawyer; and of Lawyer, Scaevola most eloquent.* 1.1
Sees•• not thou these Trophies erected in his honor, and his honor shining in these Tro∣phies?
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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- English language -- Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800.
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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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If any for love of honour, or honour of love, &c.
That as you are the child of a mother; so you may be the mother of a childe.
They misliked what themselves did; and yet still did what themselves misliked.
If before he languished, because he could not obtain his desiring; he now lamented, be∣cause he could not desire the obtaining.
Just to exercise his might, mighty to exercise his justice.
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* 1.1
Cicero.