Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory, Volume 1Russell & Russell, 1962 - Language Arts & Disciplines |
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John Quincy Adams. the world . The application of these observations is as direct to the art of oratory , as to that of war . The exercises , to which you are here accustomed , are not intended merely for the display of the tal- ents ...
John Quincy Adams. the world . The application of these observations is as direct to the art of oratory , as to that of war . The exercises , to which you are here accustomed , are not intended merely for the display of the tal- ents ...
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... direct employ- ment of them all , they may be applied also indi- rectly under a fictitious presentment of facts , with the aid of hypothesis . The hypothesis of an ora- tor bears the same proportion to his thesis , that traverse bears ...
... direct employ- ment of them all , they may be applied also indi- rectly under a fictitious presentment of facts , with the aid of hypothesis . The hypothesis of an ora- tor bears the same proportion to his thesis , that traverse bears ...
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... direct , and the second oblique ; which the Roman rhetoricians distinguish by the names of principium or beginning , and insinuation . The direct introduction is always to be employed upon popular subjects , if any exordium is expedient ...
... direct , and the second oblique ; which the Roman rhetoricians distinguish by the names of principium or beginning , and insinuation . The direct introduction is always to be employed upon popular subjects , if any exordium is expedient ...
Contents
General view of rhetoric and oratory | 33 |
Objections against eloquence considered | 53 |
Origin of oratory | 73 |
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