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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... given to the imagination . In our courses of study , we have discipline for the memory , the reasoning powers , and the invention ; but no regard is paid to the exercise and improvement of the imagination . And this , not because this ...
... given to the imagination . In our courses of study , we have discipline for the memory , the reasoning powers , and the invention ; but no regard is paid to the exercise and improvement of the imagination . And this , not because this ...
الصفحة xviii
... given , the attention of the student is directed to that point where there is most need of improvement . Besides , it not unfrequently happens , that the efforts of the student have taken some wrong direction . He has some erroneous ...
... given , the attention of the student is directed to that point where there is most need of improvement . Besides , it not unfrequently happens , that the efforts of the student have taken some wrong direction . He has some erroneous ...
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... given which may aid in its cultivation . Skill in the use of language is next made the object of attention , so far as this is necessary for the accurate and perspicuous conveyance of the thoughts . In the remaining part of the work ...
... given which may aid in its cultivation . Skill in the use of language is next made the object of attention , so far as this is necessary for the accurate and perspicuous conveyance of the thoughts . In the remaining part of the work ...
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... given for the composition of each part . It is not however designed to treat in this chapter on the management of the subject in an extended regular discourse . Nothing more is attempted , than to state and illustrate some general ...
... given for the composition of each part . It is not however designed to treat in this chapter on the management of the subject in an extended regular discourse . Nothing more is attempted , than to state and illustrate some general ...
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... given ; —they should be topics which they are capable of fully understanding , and which are interest- ing to them . Let a pupil be required to write on a subject which is above his comprehension , and his com- position becomes either a ...
... given ; —they should be topics which they are capable of fully understanding , and which are interest- ing to them . Let a pupil be required to write on a subject which is above his comprehension , and his com- position becomes either a ...
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acquired admired Æneid allusions amplification applied argument attained called cause caution Cicero circumstances clauses common comparison composition connected connexion direct the attention distinct duction effect emotions of beauty emotions of taste English language epithets Eurystheus example excite emotions exercise exhibit expression familiar favourable feelings fitted to excite frequently give given happy Hence illustration imagination implies importance improvement inferred inquiry instances intellectual habits ject judgment kind knowledge labour language literary taste manner of writing meaning ment mentioned metaphor metonymy mind models of excellence nature nexion Numidia objects and scenes opinions ornaments of style passage period perspicuity philosophical philosophy of language phrases present principles productions pronoun proposition racter readers reason refer remarks resemblance Rhetoric rules sense sentence skill speak student sublimity symbolical arts synecdoche tence things thou thoughts tion traits vivacity words writer Zeuxis