rhetorick

They have been cherished too long for rhetorick to remove them, they can only be expelled by all-powerful Necessity.

Cecilia 2008

I give no alms to satisfy the hunger of my brother, but to fulfil and accomplish the will and command of my God; I draw not my purse for his sake that demands it, but his that enjoined it; I relieve no man upon the rhetorick of his miseries, nor to content mine own commiserating disposition; for this is still but moral charity, and an act that oweth more to passion than reason.

Religio Medici 2007

That we are the breath and similitude of God, it is indisputable, and upon record of Holy Scripture: but to call ourselves a microcosm, or little world, I thought it only a pleasant trope of rhetorick, till my near judgment and second thoughts told me there was a real truth therein.

Religio Medici 2007

“He that giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord:” there is more rhetorick in that one sentence than in a library of sermons.

Religio Medici 2007

+ The sensible rhetorick of the dead, to exemplarity of good life, first admitted to the bones of pious men and martyrs within church walls, which in succeeding ages crept into promiscuous practice: while Constantine was peculiarly favoured to be admitted into the church porch, and the first thus buried in England, was in the days of Cuthred.

Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial 2007

Again, the practice of men holds not an equal pace, yea and often runs counter to their theory; we naturally know what is good, but naturally pursue what is evil: the rhetorick wherewith I persuade another cannot persuade myself.

Religio Medici 2007

It is the rhetorick of Satan; and may pervert a loose or prejudicate belief.

Religio Medici 2007

For which the most barbarous expilators found the most civil rhetorick.

Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial 2007

I do not mean that inspiration is required for rhetorick, and all the beauties of language; for when once man has language, we can conceive that he may gradually form modifications of it.

The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

And yet at the same time, he was certainly one of the greatest bubbles to them, I think, that history can produce: his rhetorick and conduct were at perpetual handy-cuffs. —

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003