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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... knowledge and skill to apply the remarks found in the text - book himself . This leads me to remark generally on the importance of reading good authors in connexion with rhetorical studies . This part of education is , I fear , in most ...
... knowledge and skill to apply the remarks found in the text - book himself . This leads me to remark generally on the importance of reading good authors in connexion with rhetorical studies . This part of education is , I fear , in most ...
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... knowledge ? that his reasoning powers have been strength- ened and subjected to salutary discipline ? - that his im- agination is active and well regulated , and his heart alive to emotion ? and is it not from his possessing these ...
... knowledge ? that his reasoning powers have been strength- ened and subjected to salutary discipline ? - that his im- agination is active and well regulated , and his heart alive to emotion ? and is it not from his possessing these ...
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... knowledge , -in the cultivation of the reasoning powers , — in the exercise and proper regulation of the imagination , and in the sensi- bilities of the heart . - But let us now suppose , that two writers , who possess those qualities ...
... knowledge , -in the cultivation of the reasoning powers , — in the exercise and proper regulation of the imagination , and in the sensi- bilities of the heart . - But let us now suppose , that two writers , who possess those qualities ...
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... knowledge and well disciplined intellectual powers . To think well on any par- ticular subject , implies that we have a full knowledge of that particular subject , and are able to understand its rela tions to other subjects , and to ...
... knowledge and well disciplined intellectual powers . To think well on any par- ticular subject , implies that we have a full knowledge of that particular subject , and are able to understand its rela tions to other subjects , and to ...
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... Knowledge , must possess habits of diligence and attention . He must be always and every where a learner . Especially must he seek after a knowledge of facts , and distinct views of received opinions on important subjects . He will be ...
... Knowledge , must possess habits of diligence and attention . He must be always and every where a learner . Especially must he seek after a knowledge of facts , and distinct views of received opinions on important subjects . He will be ...
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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.