The Principles of RhetoricAmerican book Company, 1923 - 431 páginas |
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... writer or speaker must conform . It is an art , not a science : for it neither observes , nor discovers , nor classifies ; but it shows how to convey from one mind to another the results of observation , dis- covery , or classification ...
... writer or speaker must conform . It is an art , not a science : for it neither observes , nor discovers , nor classifies ; but it shows how to convey from one mind to another the results of observation , dis- covery , or classification ...
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... writer's hostility to this " unlucky , new - fangled word . " 1 “ There is , " says Landor , " a fastidiousness in the use of language that indicates an atrophy of mind . We must take words as the world presents them to us , Fastidi ...
... writer's hostility to this " unlucky , new - fangled word . " 1 “ There is , " says Landor , " a fastidiousness in the use of language that indicates an atrophy of mind . We must take words as the world presents them to us , Fastidi ...
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... writer's first object , his language must be such The true test as his readers understand , and understand as lish . he understands it . If he is so fond of antiquity as to prefer a word that has not been in use since the twelfth or the ...
... writer's first object , his language must be such The true test as his readers understand , and understand as lish . he understands it . If he is so fond of antiquity as to prefer a word that has not been in use since the twelfth or the ...
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... writer shall be such as most fully and precisely convey his meaning to the great body of his readers . All ... writers of national reputation . That reputation they could not possess if they were readily understood by National use . the ...
... writer shall be such as most fully and precisely convey his meaning to the great body of his readers . All ... writers of national reputation . That reputation they could not possess if they were readily understood by National use . the ...
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... writer and a good American writer will write in the same language and the same dialect ; but it is well that each should keep to those little peculiarities of established and reasonable local usage which will show on which GOOD USE . 13.
... writer and a good American writer will write in the same language and the same dialect ; but it is well that each should keep to those little peculiarities of established and reasonable local usage which will show on which GOOD USE . 13.
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