 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1784 - 412 pages
...Fuit Ilium et ingens gloria " Teucrum," exprefles, that the gloryof Troy is no rnore. .., . . ' If the whole is put for a part, or a part for the whole ; a genus for a fpe-> cies, or a fpecies for a genus ; the fingular number for tl>e plural, or the plural for the fingular... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1787 - 482 pages
...dead. " Fuit Ilium et ingens " gloria Dardanidum," fignifies, that the glory of. Troy is now no more. WHEN the whole is put for a part, or a part for the whole ; a genus for a fpecies, or a fpecies for a genus ; the fingular for the plural, or the plural for the fingular number... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1802 - 328 pages
...one was dead. " Fuit Ilium et ingens glo" ria Teucrum" expreffes that the glory of Troy is no more.. When the whole is put for a part, or a part for the whole ; a genus for a fpecies, or a fpecies for a genus ; the fmgular number for the plural, or the plural for the fmgular;... | |
 | Joseph Young - Future punishment - 1804 - 276 pages
...meaning, or, indeed, any meaning but the right one. This last trope is very useful to them, by which the whole is put for a part, or a part for the whole : for when John tells his disciples that Christ was the Iamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 348 pages
...common expression for entti ing on royal authority ; flic sigu being put for the tiling signified. • When the whole is put for a part, or a part for the...general, when any thing less, or any thing more, is put fov the precise object meant ; the figure is then called a synecdoche or Comprehension. It is very... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 348 pages
...is a common expreffion for entering on royal authority ; the fign being put for the thing fignified. When the whole is put for a part, or a part for the whole ; a genus for a fpecies, or a fpecies for a genus; in general, when ant thing lefs, or any thing more, is put for the... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1805 - 280 pages
...one was dead. " Fuit Ilium et ingens " gloria Teucrum" expreiTes that the glory of Troy is no more. When the whole is put for a part, or a part for the whole ; a genus for a fpecies, or a fpecies for a genus ; the {angular number for the plural, or the plural for the fingular... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 350 pages
...entering on royal authority ; the bign being put for the thing signified. When the whole is put fora part, or a 'part -for the whole ; a genus for a species, or a species for a genus ; i;i general, when any thing less, or any thing more, is put for the precise object meant ; the figure... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1807 - 406 pages
...dead. " Furt Ilium et ingens gloria Dardonidum," signifies, that the glory of Troy is now no more. When the whole is put for a part, or a part for the...; a genus for a species or a species, for a genus ; the singular for the plural, or the plural for the singular number ; in general, when any thing less,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1808 - 330 pages
...one was dead. " Fuit Ilium et ingens " gloria Teucrum" expresses that the glory of Troy is no more. When the whole is put for a part, or a part for the...whole; a genus for a species, or a species for a genus; the singular number for the plural, or the plural for the singular ; in general, when any thing less,... | |
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