The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 1A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 - English language |
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Page xvi
... rules , which men are taught to use mechanically , a good practical arithmetician may be formed , who neither knows the reasons on which the rules he works by were first established , nor ever thinks it of any moment to enquire into ...
... rules , which men are taught to use mechanically , a good practical arithmetician may be formed , who neither knows the reasons on which the rules he works by were first established , nor ever thinks it of any moment to enquire into ...
Page xvi
... rules , as hath been al- ready hinted , which must carefully be followed , and which serve the artist instead of principles . An ac- quaintance with these is one step , and but one step towards science . Thus in the common books of a ...
... rules , as hath been al- ready hinted , which must carefully be followed , and which serve the artist instead of principles . An ac- quaintance with these is one step , and but one step towards science . Thus in the common books of a ...
Page xvi
... rules had never been invented . Besides , if by these the particular questions which come ex- actly within the description of the rule may be solv- ed , by the other such general rules themselves , as serve for the solution of endless ...
... rules had never been invented . Besides , if by these the particular questions which come ex- actly within the description of the rule may be solv- ed , by the other such general rules themselves , as serve for the solution of endless ...
Page xvi
... rules of action upon others . POETRY indeed is properly no other than a particular mode or form of certain branches of oratory . But of this more afterwards . Suffice it only to remark at pre- sent , that the direct end of the former ...
... rules of action upon others . POETRY indeed is properly no other than a particular mode or form of certain branches of oratory . But of this more afterwards . Suffice it only to remark at pre- sent , that the direct end of the former ...
Page xvi
... rules of composition are discovered , or the method of combining and disposing the several materials , so as that they may be perfectly adapted to the end in view . By the fourth , we arrive at that knowledge of human nature , which ...
... rules of composition are discovered , or the method of combining and disposing the several materials , so as that they may be perfectly adapted to the end in view . By the fourth , we arrive at that knowledge of human nature , which ...
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