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Du Marsais,(C.C.). Des Tropes ou des diferens sens dans lesquels on peur prendre un meme mot dans une meme langue. 3rd ed. Paris, Prault 1776. XXII p., 1 pl., 362 p., 4 pl. hardcover with rubbed and chipped boards (rubbed and worn, chaps and joints missing). "In his work on tropes a kind of re-foundation of the classification of "word-figures with change of meaning" (or "tropes") takes place, in that the catalog is reorganized according to a structural division into metonymy and metaphor, each of these two tropes being a "mother figure", so to speak, which gives rise to a multitude of derivatives" (Dict. des philos. I, 789 f.). - Slightly browned in places, removed bookplate.
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Du Marsais,(C.C.). Des Tropes ou des diferens sens dans lesquels on peur prendre un meme mot dans une meme langue. 3rd ed. Paris, Prault 1776. XXII p., 1 pl., 362 p., 4 pl. hardcover with rubbed and chipped boards (rubbed and worn, chaps and joints missing). "In his work on tropes a kind of re-foundation of the classification of "word-figures with change of meaning" (or "tropes") takes place, in that the catalog is reorganized according to a structural division into metonymy and metaphor, each of these two tropes being a "mother figure", so to speak, which gives rise to a multitude of derivatives" (Dict. des philos. I, 789 f.). - Slightly browned in places, removed bookplate.
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