Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising an Analysis of the Laws of Moral Evidence and of Persuasion, with Rules for Argumentative Composition and ElocutionSheldon & Company, 1871 - 551 עמודים |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 92
עמוד 10
... question ) the most powerfully affected by aintings and by poetry , of superior excellence . And none I believe are more open to the impression of sound , honest , manly eloquence , than those who dis- play it in their own compositions ...
... question ) the most powerfully affected by aintings and by poetry , of superior excellence . And none I believe are more open to the impression of sound , honest , manly eloquence , than those who dis- play it in their own compositions ...
עמוד 23
... question , I should present the reader with a sketch of its history . Little , however , is required to be said on this head , because the present is not one of those branches of study in which we can trace with interest a progressive ...
... question , I should present the reader with a sketch of its history . Little , however , is required to be said on this head , because the present is not one of those branches of study in which we can trace with interest a progressive ...
עמוד 26
... questions through which he does not clearly see his way . His great defect , which not only leads him into oc- casional errors , but leaves many of his best ideas but imper fectly developed , is his ignorance and utter misconception of ...
... questions through which he does not clearly see his way . His great defect , which not only leads him into oc- casional errors , but leaves many of his best ideas but imper fectly developed , is his ignorance and utter misconception of ...
עמוד 29
... question pro- posed , viz . concerning the utility of Rhetoric , it is to be observed that it divides itself into ... questions was eagerly debated among the ancients ; on the latter , but little doubt seems to have ex- isted . With us ...
... question pro- posed , viz . concerning the utility of Rhetoric , it is to be observed that it divides itself into ... questions was eagerly debated among the ancients ; on the latter , but little doubt seems to have ex- isted . With us ...
עמוד 41
... question ; for I am inclined to think that this part of education , if conducted as it often is , does in general more harm than good . But I am convinced , that practice in Composition , both for boys and young men , may be so ...
... question ; for I am inclined to think that this part of education , if conducted as it often is , does in general more harm than good . But I am convinced , that practice in Composition , both for boys and young men , may be so ...
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absurd accordingly admitted advantage Analogy appear arguments Aristotle attention believe Bishop Butler Bomolochus called cause censure Chap character Christian Cicero circumstances composition conclusion consequently considered course danger Deference degree discourse doctrine duced effect Elocution eloquence employed Enthymeme established evidence excite experience expression fact Fallacies fault favor feelings habit hearers ignoratio elenchi imply important impression instance Introduction Irrelevant Conclusion irreligion Jews judge judgment kind language less Logic long con matter means ment merely Metaphor mind mode moral natural object observed occasion opinion Orator passions perhaps persons Phormio Pleonasm practice prejudice premise present Presumption principles probably produce profession proof proposition prove question reader reason Refutation regarded religion remarked respect Rhetoric rience rules sense sentence sentiments sophisms Sophistical refutation speaker speaking style sufficient supposed Syllogism Tacitus testimony thing thought Thucydides tion Treatise truth witness words writers
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עמוד 158 - Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him? 49 But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.
עמוד 77 - Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
עמוד 540 - For what shall it profit a man if he should gain the whole world, and LOSE HIS OWN SOUL?
עמוד 351 - ... shall be extinct in the minds of men, plots and assassinations will be anticipated by preventive murder and preventive confiscation, and that long roll of grim and bloody maxims which form the political code of all power, not standing on its own honour, and the honour of those who are to obey it. Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
עמוד 325 - Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. If then God so clothe the grass, which is to-day in the field, and to-morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith!
עמוד 298 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
עמוד 508 - And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.
עמוד 165 - I affirm, that all the liberty of conscience, that ever I pleaded for, turns upon these two hinges — that none of the papists, protestants, Jews or Turks, be forced to come to the ship's prayers or worship, nor compelled from their own particular prayers or worship, if they practice any.
עמוד 205 - IF you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of corn : and if (instead Of each picking where and what it liked, taking just as much as it wanted, and no more) you should see ninety-nine of them gathering all they got, into a heap ; reserving nothing for themselves, but the...
עמוד 355 - By this wise prejudice we are taught to look with horror on those children of their country who are prompt rashly to hack that aged parent in pieces and put him into the kettle of magicians in hopes that by their poisonous weeds and wild incantations they may regenerate the paternal constitution and renovate their father's life.