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Page 10
... feels first , last , and all the time the life in what he reads or hears ; he does not know , if able to read with ease , that language is involved in the process . He lives in an immediate consciousness of what moved the writer to ...
... feels first , last , and all the time the life in what he reads or hears ; he does not know , if able to read with ease , that language is involved in the process . He lives in an immediate consciousness of what moved the writer to ...
Page 24
... of that mind be the sole impulse to the utterance . The motive must be un- alloyed with any feeling of self ; as when one is moved to speak by a desire to appear before an 24 THE SCIENCE OF DISCOURSE . A Sincere Purpose.
... of that mind be the sole impulse to the utterance . The motive must be un- alloyed with any feeling of self ; as when one is moved to speak by a desire to appear before an 24 THE SCIENCE OF DISCOURSE . A Sincere Purpose.
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... feels that the author is making the discourse with reference to himself , the discourse at once loses its power . For this reason the pronoun I should be used warily and sparingly . It is bad taste for a speaker to play a part in ...
... feels that the author is making the discourse with reference to himself , the discourse at once loses its power . For this reason the pronoun I should be used warily and sparingly . It is bad taste for a speaker to play a part in ...
Page 35
... feeling by which the action is stimulated . With oratory the object is not to bring the mind into conformity with the world , but to stimulate to reaction against the world , to bring the world into conformity to some idea which the ...
... feeling by which the action is stimulated . With oratory the object is not to bring the mind into conformity with the world , but to stimulate to reaction against the world , to bring the world into conformity to some idea which the ...
Page 36
... feels that the object is what it ought to be — that it is perfect . Poetry presents the object as if there were no ... feelings of injustice and oppression wielded by Pat- rick Henry to arouse the colonists to resist the mother country ...
... feels that the object is what it ought to be — that it is perfect . Poetry presents the object as if there were no ... feelings of injustice and oppression wielded by Pat- rick Henry to arouse the colonists to resist the mother country ...
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