A Practical System of Rhetoric, Or, The Principles and Rules of Style: Inferred from Examples of Writing : to which is Added a Historical Dissertation on English StyleIvison & Phinney, 1856 - 311 Seiten |
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... favorable tendency of the method of instruction , 1 can from my own experience as an instructor , speak with some confidence . I have ever found , that my pupils engage in this part of their rhetorical course with interest . INTRODUCTION .
... favorable tendency of the method of instruction , 1 can from my own experience as an instructor , speak with some confidence . I have ever found , that my pupils engage in this part of their rhetorical course with interest . INTRODUCTION .
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... favorable constitution of mind , which gives its possessor a claim to the name of genius . It is said , that when the great Newton was asked , how he was enabled to make the greatest discoveries that any mortal had ever communicated to ...
... favorable constitution of mind , which gives its possessor a claim to the name of genius . It is said , that when the great Newton was asked , how he was enabled to make the greatest discoveries that any mortal had ever communicated to ...
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... favorable to the cultivation of the moral virtues , introduces the prayer of Agur . This is an argument from " Testimony . 3. When similar cases are stated , and the inference is made , that what is proved or acknowledged to hold true ...
... favorable to the cultivation of the moral virtues , introduces the prayer of Agur . This is an argument from " Testimony . 3. When similar cases are stated , and the inference is made , that what is proved or acknowledged to hold true ...
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... favorably . Resemblance , cause and effect , contiguity as to time or place , may be mentioned as other principles of ... favorable opinion of the writer , and with the justness and truth of what has been told him . Here then the writer ...
... favorably . Resemblance , cause and effect , contiguity as to time or place , may be mentioned as other principles of ... favorable opinion of the writer , and with the justness and truth of what has been told him . Here then the writer ...
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... favorably , and , as a description , excites an emotion of beauty , I would assign as a caue , he adaptation of the description to this design . We admi it because both the selection and arrangement of circumstances , and the use of ...
... favorably , and , as a description , excites an emotion of beauty , I would assign as a caue , he adaptation of the description to this design . We admi it because both the selection and arrangement of circumstances , and the use of ...
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addressed admiration adverbs allusions Antithe applied argument atheism attained attention called cause caution clauses common comparison composition connected connexion convey deliberative assemblies direct distinct effect elegant emotions of beauty emotions of taste English language English style epithets example excite emotions exercise exhibit familiar faults favorable feelings fitted to excite following passage frequent give given habits happy Hence idiomatic illustration imagination implies infer inkhorn term instances intellectual introduced kind knowledge labor language literary taste literature look manner of writing meaning ment mentioned metaphor metonymy mind nature noun Numidia objects and scenes ornaments of style period personification perspicuity phrases Pleonasm preposition present principles productions pronoun proposition readers reason refer relative pronoun remarks resemblance rhetoric Roger Ascham rules sense sentence shew skill speak student sublimity synecdoche tence things thou thought tion traits vivacity words writer Zoroaster
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Seite 251 - ... in every way, but they cannot compass it: it must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion.