The Principles of RhetoricAmerican Book Company, 1895 - 431 páginas |
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Página 40
... argument at a trial . A plea is always addressed to the court ; an argument may be addressed either to the court or to the jury . A similar remark applies to the verbs plead and argue . Premature is properly used in the sense of " too ...
... argument at a trial . A plea is always addressed to the court ; an argument may be addressed either to the court or to the jury . A similar remark applies to the verbs plead and argue . Premature is properly used in the sense of " too ...
Página 95
... argument in a debating society , and the need there so frequently is , not simply of some clear thinker to disentangle the perplexities of thought , but of capacity in the combatants to do justice to the clearest explanations which are ...
... argument in a debating society , and the need there so frequently is , not simply of some clear thinker to disentangle the perplexities of thought , but of capacity in the combatants to do justice to the clearest explanations which are ...
Página 148
... argument remains , of course , but it is much more difficult to follow . You have shortened the page by a line or two , but you have lengthened the time requisite for its comprehension . The omission of words necessary to the sense or ...
... argument remains , of course , but it is much more difficult to follow . You have shortened the page by a line or two , but you have lengthened the time requisite for its comprehension . The omission of words necessary to the sense or ...
Página 150
... argument may be presented from several sides . The discourse should continually grow in interest , the less general coming after the more general , the address to the passions or the feelings after the explanation to the understanding ...
... argument may be presented from several sides . The discourse should continually grow in interest , the less general coming after the more general , the address to the passions or the feelings after the explanation to the understanding ...
Página 151
... argument of effect in civil life , demoL- strates the truth of my proposition . Nothing can alter my opinion concerning the pernicious tendency of this example , until I see some man for his indiscretion in the support of power , for ...
... argument of effect in civil life , demoL- strates the truth of my proposition . Nothing can alter my opinion concerning the pernicious tendency of this example , until I see some man for his indiscretion in the support of power , for ...
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American newspaper analogy antecedent probability Anthony Trollope argue argument arrangement authors Bagheera Barchester Towers beginning better Bride of Lammermoor Burke called chap character Charles Reade clause clearness composition Daniel Webster Disraeli E. F. Benson ease effect English Essays example exposition expression eyes fact fallacy feelings following passage force George Eliot give hand Herbert Spencer Ibid idea instance J. S. Mill kind language lect less look Lord Macaulay Martin Chuzzlewit Matthew Arnold means ment metaphor method Middlemarch Milton mind Miss Marjoribanks narration narrative nature never object observation paragraph persons phrase poetry poets present principle proposition prose purpose question Quincey Quoted reader reason Rhetoric rule scene Scott sect sense sentence Shakspere simile sometimes speak Spectator speech story Student's theme style tell tence Thackeray thing thou thought tion truth unity verb whole words writer
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Página 61 - The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
Página 164 - Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise : which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Página 162 - Therefore, whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock ; and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell not ; for it was founded upon a rock.
Página 190 - The question with me is not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Página 163 - Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought ? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side ? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Página 152 - At her feet he bowed he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead...
Página 78 - I thought the writing excellent, and wished if possible to imitate it. With this view I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand.
Página 113 - Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Página 255 - Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again!
Página 152 - Of old hast THOU laid the foundation of the earth : And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but THOU shalt endure : Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; As a vesture shalt THOU change them, and they shall be changed : But THOU art the same, And thy years shall have no end.