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... gives audi- ence . Rhetoric deals with all these universal and lifelong processes ; hence , its practical importance is obvious and emphatic . This study , however , got its name from the one exercise of speaking - from the Greek rhetor ...
... gives audi- ence . Rhetoric deals with all these universal and lifelong processes ; hence , its practical importance is obvious and emphatic . This study , however , got its name from the one exercise of speaking - from the Greek rhetor ...
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... give the happy stroke ; and to apply the rhetorical test requires insight and reflection . Can we not thus account for the excessive amount of time given to the study of formal language as compared with that of living discourse ? We ...
... give the happy stroke ; and to apply the rhetorical test requires insight and reflection . Can we not thus account for the excessive amount of time given to the study of formal language as compared with that of living discourse ? We ...
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... gives them currency as universal as life . Milton said . that for him to write an epic poem required that he make his life an epic poem . Not out of rhetorical maxims but out of the heart the mouth speaketh . The student must ...
... gives them currency as universal as life . Milton said . that for him to write an epic poem required that he make his life an epic poem . Not out of rhetorical maxims but out of the heart the mouth speaketh . The student must ...
Page 25
... man is called upon to give an account of himself , the case is different ; for then he is the theme of the discourse . But those who need to guard themselves most are least apt to be called upon THE PURPOSE IN DISCOURSE . 25.
... man is called upon to give an account of himself , the case is different ; for then he is the theme of the discourse . But those who need to guard themselves most are least apt to be called upon THE PURPOSE IN DISCOURSE . 25.
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... gives harmony and color to every feature of style . Every discourse , like a plant or an animal , is the prod- uct of a vital force ; and it cannot take the form of life by external carpentry . Composition is not prima- rily a putting ...
... gives harmony and color to every feature of style . Every discourse , like a plant or an animal , is the prod- uct of a vital force ; and it cannot take the form of life by external carpentry . Composition is not prima- rily a putting ...
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