 All the ends of speaking are reducible to four ; every speech being intended to enlighten the understanding, to please the imagination, to move the passions, or to influence the will.  The Philosophy of Rhetoric - Page 14by George Campbell - 1808Full view - About this book
 | George Campbell - Christian ethics - 1810 - 360 pages
...it, are reducible to these four. Every speech hath, or ought to have, for its professed aim, either to enlighten the understanding, to please the imagination, to move the passions, or to influence the will. The first of these may be subdivided into two others. ' 6 When a speaker addresseth himself to the... | |
 | George Campbell - Preaching - 1824 - 376 pages
...it, are reducible to these four. Every speech hath, or ought to have, for its professed aim, either to enlighten the understanding, to please the imagination, to move the passions, or to influence the will. The first of these may be subdivided into twi> others. When a speaker addresseth himself to the understanding,... | |
 | 1839 - 394 pages
...in its greatest latitude, denotes ' that art or talent by which a discourse is adapted to its end.' All the ends of speaking are reducible to four ; every...imagination, to move the passions, or to influence the will." The observations by which the same most acute writer immediately afterwards illustrates this his leading... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1841 - 330 pages
...discourse is adapted to its end. All the ends of speaking" (continues he) " are reducible to four ; eveiy speech being intended to enlighten the understanding,...imagination, to move the passions, or to influence the will/1 Thereupon, not adverting to the practice of writing, whether for the writer's own use, or for... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - Law - 1843 - 630 pages
...or talent by which the discourse is adapted to its end. All the ends of speaking " (continues he) ** are reducible to four ; every speech being intended...imagination, to move the passions, or to influence the will." Thereupon, not adverting to the practice of writing, whether for the writer's own use, or for the use... | |
 | François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon, George Herbert, Richard Baxter, George Campbell - Preaching - 1845 - 476 pages
...it, are reducible to these four. Every speech hath, or ought to have, for its professed aim, either to enlighten the understanding, to please the imagination, to move the passions, or to influence the will. The first of these may be subdivided into two others. When a speaker addresseth himself to the understanding,... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 394 pages
...to be that talent or art by which a discourse is adapted to its end. The ends of are chiefly four ; to enlighten the understanding, to please the imagination, to move the passions and to influence the will. One of these form the ultimate end of all discourse but some of these are... | |
 | Education - 1851 - 626 pages
...to be that talent or art by which a discourse is adapted to its end. The ends of are chiefly four ; to enlighten the understanding, to please the imagination, to move the passions and to influence the will. One of these form the ultimate end of all discourse but some of these are... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1859 - 460 pages
...its greatest latitude, denotes " that art or talent by which the discourse is adapted to its end."* All the ends of speaking are reducible to four ; every...discoursing on a subject, many things may be introduced winch are more immediately and apparently directed to some of the other ends of speaking, and not to... | |
 | Samuel Penniman Bates - Education - 1860 - 352 pages
...felt it. Dr. Campbell defines it as "that art by which the discourse is adapted to its end ; and that all the ends of speaking are reducible to four ; every...imagination, to move the passions, or to influence the will." This is the definition of a critic, rather QulDtilinn. Cicero. Washington. than that of a master of... | |
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