A Practical System of Rhetoric; Or, The Principles and Rules of Style: Inferred from Examples of Writing. With an Historical Dissertation on English StyleJohn R. Priestley, 1837 - 292 من الصفحات |
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... evidently de- pend principally on a familiarity with those productions , which are esteemed models of excellence in literature . In this respect , there is a close analogy to the cultivation of taste in painting , or in any of the fine ...
... evidently de- pend principally on a familiarity with those productions , which are esteemed models of excellence in literature . In this respect , there is a close analogy to the cultivation of taste in painting , or in any of the fine ...
الصفحة xiv
... evidently be effected by adducing examples of these faults . From the nature of the case , the endless forms of correct construction cannot be stated . On the obvious principle , then , that where one has erred , another will be liable ...
... evidently be effected by adducing examples of these faults . From the nature of the case , the endless forms of correct construction cannot be stated . On the obvious principle , then , that where one has erred , another will be liable ...
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... evidently depends on the intellectual habits , especially on the retentiveness and readiness of the memory . 2. Closely connected with the command of the thoughts , is the power of illustration . Successfully to perform this part of ...
... evidently depends on the intellectual habits , especially on the retentiveness and readiness of the memory . 2. Closely connected with the command of the thoughts , is the power of illustration . Successfully to perform this part of ...
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... evidently is , that we should not attempt to write on subjects which are beyond the reach of our mental powers , and to the treatment of which , from our habits of thought , we are not fitted . Rightly to understand and discuss some ...
... evidently is , that we should not attempt to write on subjects which are beyond the reach of our mental powers , and to the treatment of which , from our habits of thought , we are not fitted . Rightly to understand and discuss some ...
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... evidently felt the influence of his enlarged and liberal views on other subjects , or , in other words , of his intellectual habits . Objects on which taste is exercised . Taste , as thus explained , employs itself in judging both of ...
... evidently felt the influence of his enlarged and liberal views on other subjects , or , in other words , of his intellectual habits . Objects on which taste is exercised . Taste , as thus explained , employs itself in judging both of ...
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