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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... things , let not the mockery of set questions and set answers be practised , in teaching what pertains to the philosophy of rhetoric . After all , it must be allowed , that with the most skilful instruction , and the best text - book ...
... things , let not the mockery of set questions and set answers be practised , in teaching what pertains to the philosophy of rhetoric . After all , it must be allowed , that with the most skilful instruction , and the best text - book ...
الصفحة xvii
... things being equal , he who , during the first six months in which the attention is directed to composition , should devote half of his efforts to the writing of trans- lations would , I doubt not , be in advance of him , whose ...
... things being equal , he who , during the first six months in which the attention is directed to composition , should devote half of his efforts to the writing of trans- lations would , I doubt not , be in advance of him , whose ...
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... 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 fixed upon some writer as his model , and , servilely copying his master , his own native ...
... 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 fixed upon some writer as his model , and , servilely copying his master , his own native ...
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... things , and thus dispose the mind to the reception of any proposition which they are brought to support . The student is referred to " Remarks " in Exercise II , The inquiry may here arise , what kinds of composi- tion , and what ...
... things , and thus dispose the mind to the reception of any proposition which they are brought to support . The student is referred to " Remarks " in Exercise II , The inquiry may here arise , what kinds of composi- tion , and what ...
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... things . I ask myself , -1 . What is the fact ? In reply , it may be said , —that in the ma- terial world there are numerous indications of infinite wisdom and benevolence , and of almighty power . I ask , - 2. How is the existence of ...
... things . I ask myself , -1 . What is the fact ? In reply , it may be said , —that in the ma- terial world there are numerous indications of infinite wisdom and benevolence , and of almighty power . I ask , - 2. How is the existence of ...
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