The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 1W. Strahan, 1776 - 511 pages |
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... muft carefully be followed , and which ferve the artist instead . of principles . An acquaintance with thefe is one ftep , and but one step towards fcience . Thus in the common books of arithmetic , intended folely for practice , the ...
... muft carefully be followed , and which ferve the artist instead . of principles . An acquaintance with thefe is one ftep , and but one step towards fcience . Thus in the common books of arithmetic , intended folely for practice , the ...
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... muft investigate the fource of fome of the ufeful arts . Logic , whofe end is the discovery of truth , is founded in the doctrine of the under- ftanding ; and ethics , ( under which may be com- prehended economics , politics , and ...
... muft investigate the fource of fome of the ufeful arts . Logic , whofe end is the discovery of truth , is founded in the doctrine of the under- ftanding ; and ethics , ( under which may be com- prehended economics , politics , and ...
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... muft be applied for the conviction and the per- fuafion of others . It is indeed the grand art of communication , not of ideas only , but of fenti- ments , paffions , difpofitions , and purpofes . Nay , without this , the greatest ...
... muft be applied for the conviction and the per- fuafion of others . It is indeed the grand art of communication , not of ideas only , but of fenti- ments , paffions , difpofitions , and purpofes . Nay , without this , the greatest ...
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... muft derive all its light and information from the actual examples in the art , can never in return be fubfervient to the art , from which alone it has received whatever it has to be- ftow . This objection , however fpecious , will not ...
... muft derive all its light and information from the actual examples in the art , can never in return be fubfervient to the art , from which alone it has received whatever it has to be- ftow . This objection , however fpecious , will not ...
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... muft of neceffity precede even thofe rudeft and earliest effays ; and if in the imperfect and indigefted ftate in which knowledge must always be found in the mind that is rather felf - taught than totally un- taught , it deserves not to ...
... muft of neceffity precede even thofe rudeft and earliest effays ; and if in the imperfect and indigefted ftate in which knowledge must always be found in the mind that is rather felf - taught than totally un- taught , it deserves not to ...
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