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Page iii
... speaking - from the Greek rhetor , speaker - because , in the political life of the Greeks , so much depended on the art of public address . If this study should be named now , and after the most effective means of formal communication ...
... speaking - from the Greek rhetor , speaker - because , in the political life of the Greeks , so much depended on the art of public address . If this study should be named now , and after the most effective means of formal communication ...
Page iv
... speaking and writing , and also between reading and giving audience , is one of form and instrument , and involves ... speak from the platform or at the bar , in the senate or in the pulpit , but for the mass of mankind who all need to ...
... speaking and writing , and also between reading and giving audience , is one of form and instrument , and involves ... speak from the platform or at the bar , in the senate or in the pulpit , but for the mass of mankind who all need to ...
Page 7
... speaking ; or listening or reading . Especially does its value appear in the higher processes of composing and of reading . One cannot write or speak with assurance and effect without a consciousness of guiding laws ; neither can he ...
... speaking ; or listening or reading . Especially does its value appear in the higher processes of composing and of reading . One cannot write or speak with assurance and effect without a consciousness of guiding laws ; neither can he ...
Page 11
... speak a language to him who holds communion with them . But while all objects express thought , all do not exist for ... speaking to man . The ship expresses thought incidentally ; the flag that floats over it , on purpose . Thus ...
... speak a language to him who holds communion with them . But while all objects express thought , all do not exist for ... speaking to man . The ship expresses thought incidentally ; the flag that floats over it , on purpose . Thus ...
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Arnold Tompkins. རྩ pass and power of the writing . To prepare to speak and write with influence involves the whole ... speaking and writing come not by application of rhetorical devices , but by a full , active , and versatile life . The ...
Arnold Tompkins. རྩ pass and power of the writing . To prepare to speak and write with influence involves the whole ... speaking and writing come not by application of rhetorical devices , but by a full , active , and versatile life . The ...
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