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Page vi
... kind , I should have been the less likely to treat of them . To develop and explain the principles of any kind of trick , would be a most unwise procedure in any one who purposes to employ it ; though perfectly consistent for one whose ...
... kind , I should have been the less likely to treat of them . To develop and explain the principles of any kind of trick , would be a most unwise procedure in any one who purposes to employ it ; though perfectly consistent for one whose ...
Page ix
... kind of rhetorical trick , the less liable he is to be misled by it . The Artifices , strictly so called , of the Orator , are , like tricks by sleight of hand , Which , to admire , one should not understand : and he who has himself ...
... kind of rhetorical trick , the less liable he is to be misled by it . The Artifices , strictly so called , of the Orator , are , like tricks by sleight of hand , Which , to admire , one should not understand : and he who has himself ...
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Richard Whately. kind . But it is by no means true that acquaintance with an Art - in the nobler sense of the word , -not as consisting in juggling tricks , tends to diminish our sensibility to the most excellent productions of Art . The ...
Richard Whately. kind . But it is by no means true that acquaintance with an Art - in the nobler sense of the word , -not as consisting in juggling tricks , tends to diminish our sensibility to the most excellent productions of Art . The ...
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... kind friends , to whose judicious suggestions and careful corrections I am indebted , both in the original composition of the Work , aul in the subsequent revisions and enlargements of it . CONTENTS . INTRODUCTION . Definitions of ...
... kind friends , to whose judicious suggestions and careful corrections I am indebted , both in the original composition of the Work , aul in the subsequent revisions and enlargements of it . CONTENTS . INTRODUCTION . Definitions of ...
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... kind of system of universal Knowledge , on the ground that Argument may be employed on all subjects , and that no one can argue well on a subject which he does 2 Or rather of Paper ; for the invention printing is too obvious not to have ...
... kind of system of universal Knowledge , on the ground that Argument may be employed on all subjects , and that no one can argue well on a subject which he does 2 Or rather of Paper ; for the invention printing is too obvious not to have ...
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