A Practical System of Rhetoric; Or, The Principles and Rules of Style: Inferred from Examples of Writing. With an Historical Dissertation on English StyleJohn R. Priestley, 1837 - 292페이지 |
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... Hence , no doubt , Milton and others assign to this branch of study the last place in a course of edu- cation . But it is known to all , that the prevalent opinion and practice are different from those recommended by Mil- ton ; so that ...
... Hence , no doubt , Milton and others assign to this branch of study the last place in a course of edu- cation . But it is known to all , that the prevalent opinion and practice are different from those recommended by Mil- ton ; so that ...
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... hence be inferred in relation to the writer ? Do we not discover , that his mind has been stored with knowledge ? that his reasoning powers have been strengthened and subjected to salutary discipline ? -that his imagination is active ...
... hence be inferred in relation to the writer ? Do we not discover , that his mind has been stored with knowledge ? that his reasoning powers have been strengthened and subjected to salutary discipline ? -that his imagination is active ...
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... hence it is , that on some parts , comparatively little is said , and that of a general nature . Other parts , which are thought to belong more appropriately to Rhetoric , are more fully treated . Extensive Knowledge essential to the ...
... hence it is , that on some parts , comparatively little is said , and that of a general nature . Other parts , which are thought to belong more appropriately to Rhetoric , are more fully treated . Extensive Knowledge essential to the ...
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... Hence the fondness for metaphysical and moral investigations , and for the exact sciences , which is ever felt by those who excel as sound reasoners . And the student , who in the course of his education is called to search for truth in ...
... Hence the fondness for metaphysical and moral investigations , and for the exact sciences , which is ever felt by those who excel as sound reasoners . And the student , who in the course of his education is called to search for truth in ...
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... Hence arises the necessity of habits of investigation and reflec- tion . The good writer is a man of thought ; he is accus- tomed to observe accurately the phenomena , both in the natural world and in the scenes of life which come under ...
... Hence arises the necessity of habits of investigation and reflec- tion . The good writer is a man of thought ; he is accus- tomed to observe accurately the phenomena , both in the natural world and in the scenes of life which come under ...
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addressed admired Æneid allusions amplification applied argument attained attempts called cause caution Cicero circumstances clauses common comparison composition connected connexion direct the attention discourse distinct duction effect emotions of beauty emotions of taste English language epithets examination excite emotions exercise exhibit expression familiar favourable feelings fitted to excite frequently give given happy heaven Hence illustration imagination implied importance improvement inferred influence instances intellectual habits introduced jects judgment kind knowledge labour language literary taste literature look manner of writing meaning ment mentioned metaphor metonymy mind nature nexion objects and scenes opinions ornaments of style passage period personification perspicuity philosophical phrases poetry present principles productions pronoun proposition racter readers reason refer regarded remarks resemblance Rhetoric rules sense sentence skill speak striking student sublimity synecdoche tence things thou thoughts tion traits tural vivacity Washington Irving words writer
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32 페이지 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
270 페이지 - For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men...
61 페이지 - To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield.
270 페이지 - ... a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention; or a shop, for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
270 페이지 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
234 페이지 - The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then, words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible.
287 페이지 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.
225 페이지 - The resources created by peace are means of war. In cherishing those resources, we but accumulate those means. Our present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which...
67 페이지 - The mountain-shadows on her breast Were neither broken nor at rest ; In bright uncertainty they lie, Like future joys to Fancy's eye.
95 페이지 - Of law, there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.