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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... argument . The intellectual philosopher also explains to us the phenomena of mind , particularly of those emotions with which taste is con- nected . This connexion has been borne in mind , and hence it is , that on some parts ...
... argument . The intellectual philosopher also explains to us the phenomena of mind , particularly of those emotions with which taste is con- nected . This connexion has been borne in mind , and hence it is , that on some parts ...
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... arguments brought for- ward in their support , and the objections which are made , or which rise up in his own mind . The habits of thought here recommended , are not easily formed or generally possessed . The attention of most minds is ...
... arguments brought for- ward in their support , and the objections which are made , or which rise up in his own mind . The habits of thought here recommended , are not easily formed or generally possessed . The attention of most minds is ...
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... arguments which he has brought forward in its support . This exercise will be found advantageous , not only as it aids in forming a valuable intellectual habit , preparatory to the work of composition , but as it enables us to possess ...
... arguments which he has brought forward in its support . This exercise will be found advantageous , not only as it aids in forming a valuable intellectual habit , preparatory to the work of composition , but as it enables us to possess ...
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... argument used . The more common forms are , — 1. When the proposition to be established , is of the nature of a general truth , and the writer supports it by an enumeration of the particular instances , on which it is founded , or from ...
... argument used . The more common forms are , — 1. When the proposition to be established , is of the nature of a general truth , and the writer supports it by an enumeration of the particular instances , on which it is founded , or from ...
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... argument from analogy in support of a future life . Other forms of argument are occasionally resorted to , in proof of propositions and assertions . Those which have been mentioned , are in most frequent use : and we learn from them the ...
... argument from analogy in support of a future life . Other forms of argument are occasionally resorted to , in proof of propositions and assertions . Those which have been mentioned , are in most frequent use : and we learn from them the ...
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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.