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... sense to include the study of literature . Composition is the art of constructing discourse ; and reading the art of inter- preting it . They are the reverse sides of the discourse process . Rhetoric investigates the principles which ...
... sense to include the study of literature . Composition is the art of constructing discourse ; and reading the art of inter- preting it . They are the reverse sides of the discourse process . Rhetoric investigates the principles which ...
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... sense the same , are to bring the two minds , through discourse , into the same idea , sentiment , or volition . This is suggested by the word interpretation , whose root meaning is to declare be- tween . An interpreter stands between ...
... sense the same , are to bring the two minds , through discourse , into the same idea , sentiment , or volition . This is suggested by the word interpretation , whose root meaning is to declare be- tween . An interpreter stands between ...
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... sense , more effective means than does a statesman . But rhetorical laws . must hold discourse responsible for more than mere efficiency to an indifferent or evil result . The effi- ciency of a discourse is measured by its real value to ...
... sense , more effective means than does a statesman . But rhetorical laws . must hold discourse responsible for more than mere efficiency to an indifferent or evil result . The effi- ciency of a discourse is measured by its real value to ...
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... sense . Discourse , by efficient means , must seriously and honestly seek a worthy aim must seek to produce a change in the mind addressed for the good of that mind . effectiveness , announced at the outset as the ultimate law of ...
... sense . Discourse , by efficient means , must seriously and honestly seek a worthy aim must seek to produce a change in the mind addressed for the good of that mind . effectiveness , announced at the outset as the ultimate law of ...
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... sense . That cast of character which leads a young man to wear long hair and to part it in the middle often appears in literature in a straining after the feminine qualities of style when no beauty of thought underlies and demands them ...
... sense . That cast of character which leads a young man to wear long hair and to part it in the middle often appears in literature in a straining after the feminine qualities of style when no beauty of thought underlies and demands them ...
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