The Rise of Modern Prose StyleM.I.T. Press, 1968 - 372 pagina's |
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... scientific ) exposition . The scientists and their allies — such as Bacon , Cowley , Glanvill , and Boyle - derived this idea of separate styles for different subjects and audiences from classical rhetorical theory , especially ...
... scientific ) exposition . The scientists and their allies — such as Bacon , Cowley , Glanvill , and Boyle - derived this idea of separate styles for different subjects and audiences from classical rhetorical theory , especially ...
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... scientific reformers found ready made , and adopted , a way of writing ideally suitable for what they were trying to say . This is how Croll explains seventeenth - century prose , which for him is more or less an " Attic " unity . For ...
... scientific reformers found ready made , and adopted , a way of writing ideally suitable for what they were trying to say . This is how Croll explains seventeenth - century prose , which for him is more or less an " Attic " unity . For ...
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... scientific thinking infrequent in Bacon . Seneca intrudes not only scientific explanations but philosophical sententiae and moralized anec- dotes as well . Lightning , for example , inspires the standard Stoic piece on fearing death ...
... scientific thinking infrequent in Bacon . Seneca intrudes not only scientific explanations but philosophical sententiae and moralized anec- dotes as well . Lightning , for example , inspires the standard Stoic piece on fearing death ...
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