The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 1W. Strahan, 1776 - 511 pages |
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... human mind ; and aided by the lights which the poet and the orator fo amply furnish , to dif- clofe its fecret movements , tracing its prin- cipal channels of perception and action , as near as poffible , to their fource : and , on the ...
... human mind ; and aided by the lights which the poet and the orator fo amply furnish , to dif- clofe its fecret movements , tracing its prin- cipal channels of perception and action , as near as poffible , to their fource : and , on the ...
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... human mind , and more especially in the principles of the ima- gination . It is alfo in the human mind that we muft investigate the fource of fome of the ufeful arts . Logic , whofe end is the discovery of truth , is founded in the ...
... human mind , and more especially in the principles of the ima- gination . It is alfo in the human mind that we muft investigate the fource of fome of the ufeful arts . Logic , whofe end is the discovery of truth , is founded in the ...
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... human nature . Gram- mar too , in its general principles , has a clofe connexion with the understanding , and the theory of the affociation of ideas . BUT there is no art whatever that hath fo clofe a connexion with all the faculties ...
... human nature . Gram- mar too , in its general principles , has a clofe connexion with the understanding , and the theory of the affociation of ideas . BUT there is no art whatever that hath fo clofe a connexion with all the faculties ...
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... human mind . It is an humble attempt to lead the mind of the ftudious inquirer into this track , that the fol- lowing theets are now fubmitted to the examina- tion of the public . WHEN we confider the manner in which the rhetorical art ...
... human mind . It is an humble attempt to lead the mind of the ftudious inquirer into this track , that the fol- lowing theets are now fubmitted to the examina- tion of the public . WHEN we confider the manner in which the rhetorical art ...
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... , they do not precede every thing that can be termed knowledge , which every human creature that is not an idiot , is every day , from C 3- his his birth , acquiring , by experience and ob- fervation INTRODUCTION , 21.
... , they do not precede every thing that can be termed knowledge , which every human creature that is not an idiot , is every day , from C 3- his his birth , acquiring , by experience and ob- fervation INTRODUCTION , 21.
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