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... writer to stimulate the moving impulses of his audience unless he can hold them in control ; for he may find he has set free a force that is as likely to act to his detriment as to his benefit . Then , too , he will probably find that ...
... writer to stimulate the moving impulses of his audience unless he can hold them in control ; for he may find he has set free a force that is as likely to act to his detriment as to his benefit . Then , too , he will probably find that ...
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... writer wishes to make his hearer or reader believe . No man can hope to influence the beliefs of others unless he first 1 Robinson , " Forensic Oratory . " has in his own mind an exact idea of the 4 Argumentation and Debate.
... writer wishes to make his hearer or reader believe . No man can hope to influence the beliefs of others unless he first 1 Robinson , " Forensic Oratory . " has in his own mind an exact idea of the 4 Argumentation and Debate.
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... writer wishes his reader to accept . The author might discuss any one of a dozen ideas or beliefs ; he might argue that the United States should adopt a bimetallic standard at the ratio of sixteen to one ; that the bimetallic standard ...
... writer wishes his reader to accept . The author might discuss any one of a dozen ideas or beliefs ; he might argue that the United States should adopt a bimetallic standard at the ratio of sixteen to one ; that the bimetallic standard ...
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... writers in rhetoric , between a term and a proposition . A term is any word , or phrase , or combination of words other than a sen- tence . A proposition we may define as a statement that something is or is not . To illustrate : in the ...
... writers in rhetoric , between a term and a proposition . A term is any word , or phrase , or combination of words other than a sen- tence . A proposition we may define as a statement that something is or is not . To illustrate : in the ...
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... writer or speaker . In the first place , if he does not know the exact propo- sition in issue , he is almost sure to waste time and effort in arguing about matters that are wholly out- side the real question and in proving things that ...
... writer or speaker . In the first place , if he does not know the exact propo- sition in issue , he is almost sure to waste time and effort in arguing about matters that are wholly out- side the real question and in proving things that ...
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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...
Page 266 - If, then, the removal of the causes of this spirit of American liberty be for the greater part, or rather entirely, impracticable; if the ideas of criminal process be inapplicable, or, if applicable, are in the highest degree inexpedient; what way yet remains? No way is open but the third and last^-to comply with the American spirit as necessary; or, if you please, to submit to it as a necessary evil.
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.