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... nature to permit , formal credit has been given in the text . Special credit should be given to C. C. Everett's " Science of Thought " Herbert Spencer's " Essay on the Philosophy of Style , " the former having direct influence on my ...
... nature to permit , formal credit has been given in the text . Special credit should be given to C. C. Everett's " Science of Thought " Herbert Spencer's " Essay on the Philosophy of Style , " the former having direct influence on my ...
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... nature holds Communion with her visible forms , she speaks A various language . " Likewise with the forms of man's ... natural resemblance or symbolic property ; but language is purely arbitrary , which is both its loss and its gain . If ...
... nature holds Communion with her visible forms , she speaks A various language . " Likewise with the forms of man's ... natural resemblance or symbolic property ; but language is purely arbitrary , which is both its loss and its gain . If ...
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... nature to do so . Hence we say that it is an arbitrary symbol . Of course printed language , being a degenerate form ... natural character and assumed the conventional in the effort of man to express his thought more effectively . Thus ...
... nature to do so . Hence we say that it is an arbitrary symbol . Of course printed language , being a degenerate form ... natural character and assumed the conventional in the effort of man to express his thought more effectively . Thus ...
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... natural genius , stores his mind thoroughly with the most valuable kinds of knowledge ; a man sent by the gods to do honor to the world , and such as no preceding age has known ; a man in every way eminent and excel- lent , a thinker of ...
... natural genius , stores his mind thoroughly with the most valuable kinds of knowledge ; a man sent by the gods to do honor to the world , and such as no preceding age has known ; a man in every way eminent and excel- lent , a thinker of ...
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... nature of discourse , that the purpose is the effect in the mind of the hearer , for the benefit of the hearer . The moment the reader or hearer feels that the author is making the discourse with reference to himself , the discourse at ...
... nature of discourse , that the purpose is the effect in the mind of the hearer , for the benefit of the hearer . The moment the reader or hearer feels that the author is making the discourse with reference to himself , the discourse at ...
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