The Principles of ArgumentationGinn, 1925 - 616 pages |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
admitted American analysis answer argu arguer argument from authority argument from cause assertion audience Bering Sea brief proper canal capital punishment cause to effect circumstantial clash in opinion clear conclusion consider course Daniel Webster debate deductive deductive reasoning definition Demosthenes depends division elective system essential experience facts fallacy force forensic give given Hay-Pauncefote Treaty Hugo Münsterberg ideas illustration important induction inferences instance interest investigation J. S. Mill logical matter means ment mind murder nature objection opponent Panama Panama Canal party persons persuasion phrasing possible present principles proof proposition proved question R. C. Jebb reader reasoning refutation regard resemblance result sheriff side speaker special issues speech splenic fever statement sure tests theory thing tion treaty true truth United William Minto witness words writer
Popular passages
Page 358 - Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests, the laboring interests, and the toilers everywhere, we will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them : You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
Page 77 - First, sir, permit me to observe that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment ; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again : and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
Page 373 - Meantime, the guilty soul cannot keep its own secret. It is false to itself; or rather it feels an irresistible impulse of conscience to be true to itself. It labors under its guilty possession, and knows not what to do with it. The human heart was not made for the residence of such an inhabitant.
Page 9 - These abominable principles, and this more abominable avowal of them, demand the most decisive indignation. I call upon that right reverend, and this most learned bench, to vindicate the religion of their God, to support the justice of their country. I call upon the bishops...
Page 293 - You'd scarce expect one of my age, To speak in public on the stage ; And if I chance to fall below Demosthenes or Cicero, Don't view me with a critic's eye, But pass my imperfections by. Large streams from little fountains flow; Tall oaks from little acorns grow...
Page 311 - You must extinguish, one after another, all those great lights of science which for more than a century have thrown their radiance over our land! It is, sir, as I have said, a small College. And yet there are those who love it.
Page 355 - Let me picture to you the footsore Confederate soldier, as, buttoning up in his faded gray jacket the parole which was to bear testimony to his children of his fidelity and faith, he turned his face southward from Appomattox in April 1865. Think of him as ragged, half starved, heavy-hearted, enfeebled by want and wounds...
Page 132 - Six hours to sleep, to law's grave study six, Four spend in prayer, the rest on nature fix.
Page 363 - Then, Sir, from these six capital sources, of descent, of form of government, of religion in the northern provinces, of manners in the southern, of education, of the remoteness of situation from the first mover of government, — from all these causes a fierce spirit of liberty has grown up.
Page 519 - They are beaten men from beaten races; representing the worst failures in the struggle for existence. Centuries are against them, as centuries were on the side of those who formerly came to us.