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... feelings generally . III . Of the favourable or unfavourable disposition of the Hearers or Readers towards the Speaker or Writer , and h.s opponent · 131 PART III . CHAP . I. Of Perspicuity of Style OF STYLE . · II . Of Energy , or ...
... feelings generally . III . Of the favourable or unfavourable disposition of the Hearers or Readers towards the Speaker or Writer , and h.s opponent · 131 PART III . CHAP . I. Of Perspicuity of Style OF STYLE . · II . Of Energy , or ...
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... Feeling , Sentiment , or Emotion , ) with a view to the attainment of any object proposed , principally , Persuasion , in the strict sense , i.e. the in- fluencing of the WILL ; thirdly , to offer some remarks on STYLE ; and , fourthly ...
... Feeling , Sentiment , or Emotion , ) with a view to the attainment of any object proposed , principally , Persuasion , in the strict sense , i.e. the in- fluencing of the WILL ; thirdly , to offer some remarks on STYLE ; and , fourthly ...
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... feelings , again , does not belong exclusively to Rhetoric ; since Poetry has at least as much to do with that branch . Nor are the considerations relative to Style and Elocution confined to argumentative and persuasive compositions ...
... feelings , again , does not belong exclusively to Rhetoric ; since Poetry has at least as much to do with that branch . Nor are the considerations relative to Style and Elocution confined to argumentative and persuasive compositions ...
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... feeling which is the writer's object . In Argumen- tative Compositions , however , as the object of course is to produce I do not mean , however , that every thing to which the term " plausible would apply would be in strict propriety ...
... feeling which is the writer's object . In Argumen- tative Compositions , however , as the object of course is to produce I do not mean , however , that every thing to which the term " plausible would apply would be in strict propriety ...
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... feelings and experience : 10 the result of which is , that a correct account of these will often appear to them unnatural , and an erroneous one , natural . E.G. A person born with the usual endow- ments of the senses , is apt to ...
... feelings and experience : 10 the result of which is , that a correct account of these will often appear to them unnatural , and an erroneous one , natural . E.G. A person born with the usual endow- ments of the senses , is apt to ...
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