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... question , the arguer can use and wishes to use a comparatively small amount , and his success must depend in great degree upon his tact and good judgment in choosing for his use those materials that will appeal strongly to the minds ...
... question , the arguer can use and wishes to use a comparatively small amount , and his success must depend in great degree upon his tact and good judgment in choosing for his use those materials that will appeal strongly to the minds ...
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... question and in proving things that are " beside the point . " Then again , he must know the proposition in order to understand the position taken by his opponent , and so be enabled to refute him . The proposition is simply a statement ...
... question and in proving things that are " beside the point . " Then again , he must know the proposition in order to understand the position taken by his opponent , and so be enabled to refute him . The proposition is simply a statement ...
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... question really in issue ; it may be obscured by the words of the discussion ; it may become confused with other kin- dred but different questions ; it may be separated with difficulty from the general problem that embraces it . Then ...
... question really in issue ; it may be obscured by the words of the discussion ; it may become confused with other kin- dred but different questions ; it may be separated with difficulty from the general problem that embraces it . Then ...
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... question at issue , i.e. the facts and ideas , the truth or falsity of which must be decided to decide the question . ( B ) Formulating the question in words . After the facts in issue have been deter- mined on , they must be expressed ...
... question at issue , i.e. the facts and ideas , the truth or falsity of which must be decided to decide the question . ( B ) Formulating the question in words . After the facts in issue have been deter- mined on , they must be expressed ...
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... question to be discussed is largely the work of selecting out of a broad and general problem some single , concrete , and limited issue . In performing the work of this first step there is no exact rule or method for all cases ...
... question to be discussed is largely the work of selecting out of a broad and general problem some single , concrete , and limited issue . In performing the work of this first step there is no exact rule or method for all cases ...
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Page 106 - Nothing worse happens to you than does to all nations who have extensive empire, and it happens in all the forms into which empire can be thrown. In large bodies, the circulation of power must be less vigorous at the extremities.
Page 219 - NO MAN thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the house. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen, if, entertaining as I do opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve. This is no time for ceremony.
Page 266 - Far from it. Far from deciding on a sudden or partial view, I would patiently go round and round the subject, and survey it minutely in every possible aspect. Sir, if I were capable of engaging you to an equal attention, I would state that, as far as I am capable of discerning, there are but three ways of proceeding relative to this stubborn spirit which prevails in your colonies and disturbs your government. These are, to change that spirit, as inconvenient, by removing the causes ; ' to prosecute...
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Page 247 - I wish for nothing but to breathe, in this our island, in common with my fellow-subjects, the air of liberty. I have no ambition, unless it be the ambition to break your chain, and contemplate your glory. I never will be satisfied so long as the meanest cottager in Ireland has a link of the British chain clanking to his rags. He may be naked, — he shall not be in irons.
Page 118 - If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon.
Page 298 - This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them.
Page 118 - Whatever phenomenon varies in any manner whenever another phenomenon varies in some particular manner, is either a cause or an effect of that phenomenon, or is connected with it through some fact of causation.
Page 118 - If two or more instances in which the phenomenon occurs have only one circumstance in common, while two or more instances in which it does not occur have nothing in common save the absence of that circumstance, the circumstance in which alone the two sets of instances differ is the effect, or the cause, or an indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon.