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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"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 May 23, 2024.
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HYSTEROLOGIA, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, dictio praeposte∣ra, a praeposterous or disorderly speech, when that which by order ought to have been spoken first, is brought in last.
It is otherwise called Hysteron Proteron, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, postremum primum, the last first: deri∣ved from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, [hysteros] postremus, the last or hindmost, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, [legos] verbum, a word or speech.
It is called in the English phrase, The Cart before the Horse.
A figure when in a speech that which in course of nature ought to have preceded, is brought in last.
Hysteron & Proteron sive Hysterologia secun∣doPrima loco ponit: Lavind{que} littora venit.
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Detrudunt naves scopulo. nutrit peperit{que}
Valet at{que} vivit.
Postquam altos tetigit fluctus, & ad aequora venit.
English Examples.
The ship arrived at the Lavinian shore: it came foul of the Rock.
She nourished and preserved him, she brought him forth into the world.
He is in health and alive.
Scriptural Examples of Hysterologia.
The order o••••ime is not alwaies kept in Scrip∣ture; but sometimes ••hat which was done last is placed first; The Saints looked more at the sub∣stance then at small circumstances in their wri∣tings; and therefore the placing of things in Scrip∣ture must not be strictly urged; for it is usual by this figure or anticipation of time to relate that first which either as to course of nature, or as to the time of accomplishment, should have had the last place: as appears by Joh. 11.2. compared with ch. 12. v. 3.
Psal. 7.14. He travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief: here note that the birth is set before the conception.
Luke 4.9. The Devils leading up of Christ unto the top of the pinnacle of the Temple, is mentioned after his taking him up into the ex∣ceeding high Mountain: and yet that preceded this, as appears by Mat. 4 5, 8.