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Page vi
... effort to enable the pupil to see discourse as it unfolds from a single principle , and to prac- tise constructing and interpreting it under that principle . He must become aware that all is determined from within , and not a mere ...
... effort to enable the pupil to see discourse as it unfolds from a single principle , and to prac- tise constructing and interpreting it under that principle . He must become aware that all is determined from within , and not a mere ...
Page ix
... effort , this book has been written under the conviction that a more strictly scientific treatment of discourse is possible than has yet been made , and which would , therefore , yield a higher discipline and a more fruitful application ...
... effort , this book has been written under the conviction that a more strictly scientific treatment of discourse is possible than has yet been made , and which would , therefore , yield a higher discipline and a more fruitful application ...
Page 3
... effort , " Veni , vidi , vici " ; and " Peace , be still . " And either " Peace " Vici " would have made a first - rate discourse by itself . The point is that these language units are not such with reference to each other , but with ...
... effort , " Veni , vidi , vici " ; and " Peace , be still . " And either " Peace " Vici " would have made a first - rate discourse by itself . The point is that these language units are not such with reference to each other , but with ...
Page 12
... effort of man to express his thought more effectively . Thus the purpose of dis- course has shaped its instrument through the ages , as it immediately shapes it in each particular discourse . Discourse , then , connects itself with ...
... effort of man to express his thought more effectively . Thus the purpose of dis- course has shaped its instrument through the ages , as it immediately shapes it in each particular discourse . Discourse , then , connects itself with ...
Page 14
... 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 common thought is ...
... 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 common thought is ...
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