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... likely to be much affected by their performance . This is indeed one great recommendation of the study of Rhetoric , that it furnishes the most effectual antidote against deception of this kind . But it is by no means true that PREFACE .
... likely to be much affected by their performance . This is indeed one great recommendation of the study of Rhetoric , that it furnishes the most effectual antidote against deception of this kind . But it is by no means true that PREFACE .
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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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... mean proficient ; for such was the importance attached to public speaking , even long after the downfall of the Republic had cut off the Orator from the hopes of attaining , through the means of this qualification , the highest ...
... mean proficient ; for such was the importance attached to public speaking , even long after the downfall of the Republic had cut off the Orator from the hopes of attaining , through the means of this qualification , the highest ...
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... means by which the desired end is attained by all who do attain it , we shall be in possession of rules capable of general application ; which is , says he , the proper office of an Art . Experience so plainly evinces , what indeed we ...
... means by which the desired end is attained by all who do attain it , we shall be in possession of rules capable of general application ; which is , says he , the proper office of an Art . Experience so plainly evinces , what indeed we ...
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... means of which we are supposed to be able to do what I am convinced is impossible ; to carry on a train of Reasoning without the use of Language , or of any General - Signs whatever . 66 But each , in proportion as he the more fully ...
... means of which we are supposed to be able to do what I am convinced is impossible ; to carry on a train of Reasoning without the use of Language , or of any General - Signs whatever . 66 But each , in proportion as he the more fully ...
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