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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Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800.
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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English Examples.
By this point or note all the parts of a sen∣tence are distinguished: as,
Embrace in your sweet consideration, I be∣seech you, the misery of my case, acknowledge your self to be the cause, and think it reason for you to redresse the effects.
Thus she said, thus she ended, with so fair a Majesty of unconquered vertue, that captivity might seem to have authority over tyrannie, &c.