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Page 5
... composer with all the possible ways of expression . Rhetoric selects out of the many forms the one which , under the circum- stances , will be most effective . While there are many ways of expressing the same thing , there is but one of ...
... composer with all the possible ways of expression . Rhetoric selects out of the many forms the one which , under the circum- stances , will be most effective . While there are many ways of expressing the same thing , there is but one of ...
Page 14
... composer , the effort is to bring the interpreter into a given thought ; and with the inter- preter the effort is to bring himself into the same . thought . Discourse is a means to the unity of two minds in the same thought ; which ...
... composer , the effort is to bring the interpreter into a given thought ; and with the inter- preter the effort is to bring himself into the same . thought . Discourse is a means to the unity of two minds in the same thought ; which ...
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... composer to keep himself out of the discourse altogether , assuming that the audience are interested only in the topic under discussion and not in him . Should he himself become the interesting topic , as when a famous man is called ...
... composer to keep himself out of the discourse altogether , assuming that the audience are interested only in the topic under discussion and not in him . Should he himself become the interesting topic , as when a famous man is called ...
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... composer be controlled by the genuine impulse of the effect to be produced . The message to be delivered must be the all - absorbing con- sciousness in the delivery . One is not in condition to speak or write till he has an idea which ...
... composer be controlled by the genuine impulse of the effect to be produced . The message to be delivered must be the all - absorbing con- sciousness in the delivery . One is not in condition to speak or write till he has an idea which ...
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... It has already been incident- ally stated that a composer must have , besides a sincere and worthy aim , a definite one , He must set before himself just what he is to accomplish , and then THE PURPOSE IN DISCOURSE . 31 A Definite Purpose -
... It has already been incident- ally stated that a composer must have , besides a sincere and worthy aim , a definite one , He must set before himself just what he is to accomplish , and then THE PURPOSE IN DISCOURSE . 31 A Definite Purpose -
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