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Arnold Tompkins. THE ORGANIC ELEMENTS . In getting our fingers firmly around the subject - mat- ter we have necessarily felt of the organic elements . Discourse , in producing an effect on another mind , uses ideas as a means , and ...
Arnold Tompkins. THE ORGANIC ELEMENTS . In getting our fingers firmly around the subject - mat- ter we have necessarily felt of the organic elements . Discourse , in producing an effect on another mind , uses ideas as a means , and ...
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... elements , two are absorbed in the other , in a consciousness of the end to be realized . - In reading , the language element comes first , and then the thought appears ; after which the effect is produced . Yet they do not occur this ...
... elements , two are absorbed in the other , in a consciousness of the end to be realized . - In reading , the language element comes first , and then the thought appears ; after which the effect is produced . Yet they do not occur this ...
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... elements and the order of discussion is a necessity for the purpose of discussion only ; that in the actual discourse itself they move together as a unity of life , thought and language being gathered up and fused in an experience in ...
... elements and the order of discussion is a necessity for the purpose of discussion only ; that in the actual discourse itself they move together as a unity of life , thought and language being gathered up and fused in an experience in ...
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... element of thought , and gives harmony and color to every feature of style . Every discourse , like a plant or an animal ... elements and forms needed for its realization in the mind of the reader or hearer . Hence the most searching ...
... element of thought , and gives harmony and color to every feature of style . Every discourse , like a plant or an animal ... elements and forms needed for its realization in the mind of the reader or hearer . Hence the most searching ...
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... elements from that required in arousing people to religious and ethical conduct . The poet dare not give the mathematical position , form , and size of a landscape , but the surveyor must do so . To use the rainbow as a subject of ...
... elements from that required in arousing people to religious and ethical conduct . The poet dare not give the mathematical position , form , and size of a landscape , but the surveyor must do so . To use the rainbow as a subject of ...
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