The beau's academy, or, The modern and genteel way of wooing and complementing after the most courtly manner in which is drawn to the life, the deportment of most accomplished lovers, the mode of their courtly entertainments, the charms of their persuasive language in their addresses or more secret dispatches, to which are added poems, songs, letters of love and others : proverbs, riddles, jests, posies, devices, with variety of pastimes and diversions as cross-purposes, the lovers alphabet &c. also a dictionary for making rhimes, four hundred and fifty delightful questions with their several answers together with a new invented art of logick : so plain and easie that the meanest capacity may in a short time attain to a perfection of arguing and disputing.
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The beau's academy, or, The modern and genteel way of wooing and complementing after the most courtly manner in which is drawn to the life, the deportment of most accomplished lovers, the mode of their courtly entertainments, the charms of their persuasive language in their addresses or more secret dispatches, to which are added poems, songs, letters of love and others : proverbs, riddles, jests, posies, devices, with variety of pastimes and diversions as cross-purposes, the lovers alphabet &c. also a dictionary for making rhimes, four hundred and fifty delightful questions with their several answers together with a new invented art of logick : so plain and easie that the meanest capacity may in a short time attain to a perfection of arguing and disputing.
Author
Phillips, Edward, 1630-1696?
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London :: Printed for O. B. and sold by John Sprint at the Bell in Little-Britain,
1699.
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Subject terms
Courtship -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Logic -- Early works to 1800.
Epithets -- Early works to 1800.
Letter writing -- Early works to 1800.
English language -- Rhyme -- Early works to 1800.
Questions and answers -- Early works to 1800.
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"The beau's academy, or, The modern and genteel way of wooing and complementing after the most courtly manner in which is drawn to the life, the deportment of most accomplished lovers, the mode of their courtly entertainments, the charms of their persuasive language in their addresses or more secret dispatches, to which are added poems, songs, letters of love and others : proverbs, riddles, jests, posies, devices, with variety of pastimes and diversions as cross-purposes, the lovers alphabet &c. also a dictionary for making rhimes, four hundred and fifty delightful questions with their several answers together with a new invented art of logick : so plain and easie that the meanest capacity may in a short time attain to a perfection of arguing and disputing." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/B09731.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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CAP. 7. The Discreet Axioma
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Q. What is a Segregative Axioma?
A. A Segregative Axioma is that whose conjunction is Se∣gregative, and therefore enunciateth disagreeing arguments.
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Q. What are the kinds?
A. A Segregative enunciation is discreet or disjunct.
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Q. What is discreet?
A. Discreet is that whose conjunction is discretive, and therefore of disagreeings it chiefly enunciateth diverses.
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Q. Give example?
A. Tusc. 5. Although they may be judged by the force o•• the body, yet they are referred to the mind: whose negativ•• and contradiction is, although they may not be juged by th••
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sense of the body, yet they are referred to the minde; or, although they may be judged by the sense of the body, yet they are not referred to the minde. For yet is here a chief conjunction.
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Q. How is the discreet Enunciat judged to be true?
A. The discreet enunciation is judged to be true and law∣ful, if the parts be not only true, but may be also discreet.
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Q. How is the false or ridiculous judged?
A. Contrarily.
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