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Page iii
... hence , its practical importance is obvious and emphatic . This study , however , got its name from the one exercise of speaking - from the Greek rhetor , speaker - because , in the political life of the Greeks , so much depended on the ...
... hence , its practical importance is obvious and emphatic . This study , however , got its name from the one exercise of speaking - from the Greek rhetor , speaker - because , in the political life of the Greeks , so much depended on the ...
Page iv
... Hence , to treat one process to the exclusion of the other , as , for instance , to write a book on composition and then one on reading , would not only be bad economy , but would defeat the search for the highest guiding truth in ...
... Hence , to treat one process to the exclusion of the other , as , for instance , to write a book on composition and then one on reading , would not only be bad economy , but would defeat the search for the highest guiding truth in ...
Page vi
... hence , art is made effective by perfecting the science . Besides , the scientific treatment is the only elementary one . The rule and recipe treatment cannot excuse itself on the plea of making the subject easy . A subject may be ...
... hence , art is made effective by perfecting the science . Besides , the scientific treatment is the only elementary one . The rule and recipe treatment cannot excuse itself on the plea of making the subject easy . A subject may be ...
Page 7
... Hence rhetoric is not excluded from any part of the territory of discourse , that is , language in its adapta- tion to the purposes of utterance ; only this : rhetoric cannot practice while it is preaching , although it must practice ...
... Hence rhetoric is not excluded from any part of the territory of discourse , that is , language in its adapta- tion to the purposes of utterance ; only this : rhetoric cannot practice while it is preaching , although it must practice ...
Page 12
... Hence we say that it is an arbitrary symbol . Of course printed language , being a degenerate form of picture writing , did in that form naturally express its object ; as perhaps did spoken language at one time . They no doubt lost ...
... Hence we say that it is an arbitrary symbol . Of course printed language , being a degenerate form of picture writing , did in that form naturally express its object ; as perhaps did spoken language at one time . They no doubt lost ...
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