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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الصفحة xiv
... exist but in a slight degree , when ex- hibiting what is connected with the philosophy of lan- guage . Here is such abundant opportunity for illustra- tion , and examples are so easily adduced , that every principle may without ...
... exist but in a slight degree , when ex- hibiting what is connected with the philosophy of lan- guage . Here is such abundant opportunity for illustra- tion , and examples are so easily adduced , that every principle may without ...
الصفحة xviii
... exists a fastidiousness of taste , which is detrimental . The student is kept from doing any thing , because he is unable to do better than he can do . In other instances , there is an injurious propensity to imitation . The student has ...
... exists a fastidiousness of taste , which is detrimental . The student is kept from doing any thing , because he is unable to do better than he can do . In other instances , there is an injurious propensity to imitation . The student has ...
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... exist in states , and with properties , equally diverse . This is an argument from analogy in support of a future life . Other forms of argument are occasionally resorted to , in proof of propositions and assertions . Those which have ...
... exist in states , and with properties , equally diverse . This is an argument from analogy in support of a future life . Other forms of argument are occasionally resorted to , in proof of propositions and assertions . Those which have ...
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... exist , our labour must be in vain . The injunction of Horace , as thus explained , admits of being applied to the selection of subjects for young writers . And on this point , two important directions may be given ; —they should be ...
... exist , our labour must be in vain . The injunction of Horace , as thus explained , admits of being applied to the selection of subjects for young writers . And on this point , two important directions may be given ; —they should be ...
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... exist as to the object proposed , or there is any danger that the reader may mistake the design of the writer , the precise object of discussion cannot be too distinctly and formally stated . In the management of the subject , as in the ...
... exist as to the object proposed , or there is any danger that the reader may mistake the design of the writer , the precise object of discussion cannot be too distinctly and formally stated . In the management of the subject , as in the ...
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