A Text-book on Rhetoric: Supplementing the Development of the Science with Exhaustive Practice in Composition : a Course of Practical Lessons Adapted for Use in High Schools and Academies and in the Lower Classes of CollegesE. Maynard, 1892 - 345 pages |
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... of Invention . Great stress is laid upon invention , the finding of the thought , the most important element in discourse of any kind . While , strictly speaking , rhetoric cannot —nothing can ―teach the pupil to 4 Preface .
... of Invention . Great stress is laid upon invention , the finding of the thought , the most important element in discourse of any kind . While , strictly speaking , rhetoric cannot —nothing can ―teach the pupil to 4 Preface .
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... speaking , rhetoric cannot —nothing can ―teach the pupil to think , rhetoric can bring the pupil into such relations with his subject that he shall find much thought in it , and be led to put this into the most telling place in his oral ...
... speaking , rhetoric cannot —nothing can ―teach the pupil to think , rhetoric can bring the pupil into such relations with his subject that he shall find much thought in it , and be led to put this into the most telling place in his oral ...
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... speak . Were we to name the study now , it is possible that we should take some word which means to write . But rhetoric was studied before writing became general , and ages and ages before printing was invented . Men spoke 12 Introductory ...
... speak . Were we to name the study now , it is possible that we should take some word which means to write . But rhetoric was studied before writing became general , and ages and ages before printing was invented . Men spoke 12 Introductory ...
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... speaking was easy . The air , the lungs , and the organs of the throat and mouth were ready and waiting to be used . Writing was at first impossible , and for a long while difficult after it became possible . There were needed ( 1 ) an ...
... speaking was easy . The air , the lungs , and the organs of the throat and mouth were ready and waiting to be used . Writing was at first impossible , and for a long while difficult after it became possible . There were needed ( 1 ) an ...
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... speaking , and who brings his sentences to this test , is the one likely to learn the secret of expression , the art of " putting things . " And this leads us to speak of Usage as Authority in Rhetoric . - There is no reason , in the ...
... speaking , and who brings his sentences to this test , is the one likely to learn the secret of expression , the art of " putting things . " And this leads us to speak of Usage as Authority in Rhetoric . - There is no reason , in the ...
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