The Practical Elements of Rhetoric: With Illustrative Examples 1887 |
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... material by thought or obser- vation , is the fundamental and inclusive office of invention , the distinctive power ... material . Indeed , the material is not properly found , or at least ascertained to be what is needed , until it has ...
... material by thought or obser- vation , is the fundamental and inclusive office of invention , the distinctive power ... material . Indeed , the material is not properly found , or at least ascertained to be what is needed , until it has ...
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... MATERIAL . As has already been shown , it is almost exclusively the ordering of material , the sifting of it mainly as involved in the ordering , and hardly at all the actual finding of it , that a treatise on inven- tion can discuss ...
... MATERIAL . As has already been shown , it is almost exclusively the ordering of material , the sifting of it mainly as involved in the ordering , and hardly at all the actual finding of it , that a treatise on inven- tion can discuss ...
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... material ? Does it precede or follow ? It both follows and precedes . Before the theme is determined , the writer studies to get a point of view : by rapid discursive read- ing and meditation he collects a store of ideas related in ...
... material ? Does it precede or follow ? It both follows and precedes . Before the theme is determined , the writer studies to get a point of view : by rapid discursive read- ing and meditation he collects a store of ideas related in ...
Contents
Definition of Rhetoric | 1 |
Style in General | 13 |
Diction | 27 |
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