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 CollegesClark & Maynard, 1886 - 276 pages |
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... mind of the hearer or reader through the words which he hears or sees . That which these words express we call a thought , and hence A sentence is the verbal expression of a thought . Now , rhetoric deals with the thought of the ...
... mind of the hearer or reader through the words which he hears or sees . That which these words express we call a thought , and hence A sentence is the verbal expression of a thought . Now , rhetoric deals with the thought of the ...
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... mind which thinks and imparts thought , in that department of its work which is con- cerned with expression it has only usage as authority for what it teaches — the usage of the best writers and speakers . And this is variable ...
... mind which thinks and imparts thought , in that department of its work which is con- cerned with expression it has only usage as authority for what it teaches — the usage of the best writers and speakers . And this is variable ...
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... mind comes face to face with the things of the outer world . Through the senses the mind sees , hears , feels , tastes , Ideas , Thinking , Thought . 19.
... mind comes face to face with the things of the outer world . Through the senses the mind sees , hears , feels , tastes , Ideas , Thinking , Thought . 19.
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... mind . These impressions , or images , or pictures , of things we shall call ideas . That the mind does receive and store away these ideas is proved by the fact that we can bring them up out of the memory , look at them with what we may ...
... mind . These impressions , or images , or pictures , of things we shall call ideas . That the mind does receive and store away these ideas is proved by the fact that we can bring them up out of the memory , look at them with what we may ...
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... mind feels itself above any and all human books . 8. It is faith in something and en- thusiasm for something that make life worth looking at . 9 . A verb is a word whereby the chief action of the mind is ex- pressed . 10. The valley of ...
... mind feels itself above any and all human books . 8. It is faith in something and en- thusiasm for something that make life worth looking at . 9 . A verb is a word whereby the chief action of the mind is ex- pressed . 10. The valley of ...
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