Elements of RhetoricLongmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1867 - 319 pages |
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Page v
... thought it best on the whole to retain , being that by which the Article in the Encyclopædia is designated ; as I was unwilling to lay myself open to the sus- picion of wishing to pass off as new , on the strength of a new name , what ...
... thought it best on the whole to retain , being that by which the Article in the Encyclopædia is designated ; as I was unwilling to lay myself open to the sus- picion of wishing to pass off as new , on the strength of a new name , what ...
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... thought that some apology is necessary for the 1 I have recently been represented ( while the sixth edition of this very work was before the public ) as having declared the impossibility of making such an Analysis and Classification of ...
... thought that some apology is necessary for the 1 I have recently been represented ( while the sixth edition of this very work was before the public ) as having declared the impossibility of making such an Analysis and Classification of ...
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... thought necessary for the various illustrations , selected from several authors , or framed for the occasion , which occur both in the present treatise , and in that on Logic ; and in which , opinions on various subjects are inci ...
... thought necessary for the various illustrations , selected from several authors , or framed for the occasion , which occur both in the present treatise , and in that on Logic ; and in which , opinions on various subjects are inci ...
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... thought even the former editions too full , and too digressive . Rhetoric having , as I have elsewhere observed , ( like Logic , ) no proper subject- matter of its own , it is manifestly impossible to draw the line precisely between ...
... thought even the former editions too full , and too digressive . Rhetoric having , as I have elsewhere observed , ( like Logic , ) no proper subject- matter of its own , it is manifestly impossible to draw the line precisely between ...
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... thought and power of Analysis which Aristotle possessed . The writers on Rhetoric among the ancients whose works are lost , seem to have been numerous ; but most of them appear to have confined themselves to a very narrow view of the ...
... thought and power of Analysis which Aristotle possessed . The writers on Rhetoric among the ancients whose works are lost , seem to have been numerous ; but most of them appear to have confined themselves to a very narrow view of the ...
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Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising the Substance of the Article in the ... Richard Whately No preview available - 2017 |
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