Rhetoric of the People: Is There Any Better Or Equal Hope in the World?Harold Barrett |
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... common sense or prudence . " Though few , if any , of the ranchers and miners in the Lewis study knew formal theory of logic or rhetoric , they learned to shape work- able and effective argument . Justice and self - governance depended ...
... common sense or prudence . " Though few , if any , of the ranchers and miners in the Lewis study knew formal theory of logic or rhetoric , they learned to shape work- able and effective argument . Justice and self - governance depended ...
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... common human lives . " As Everett Lee Hunt suggests in his appraisal of the address at Cooper Union , Abra- ham Lincoln constructed argument which was at once morally force- ful and practical . Lincoln's sound judgment and common sense ...
... common human lives . " As Everett Lee Hunt suggests in his appraisal of the address at Cooper Union , Abra- ham Lincoln constructed argument which was at once morally force- ful and practical . Lincoln's sound judgment and common sense ...
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... common weal without which such rights cease to exist . 13 10. Winston Lamont Brembeck and William Smiley Howell , Persuasion ... ( New York , 1952 ) , pp . 448-449 . 11. The Psychology of Persuasive Speech , 2nd ed . ( New York , 1957 ) ...
... common weal without which such rights cease to exist . 13 10. Winston Lamont Brembeck and William Smiley Howell , Persuasion ... ( New York , 1952 ) , pp . 448-449 . 11. The Psychology of Persuasive Speech , 2nd ed . ( New York , 1957 ) ...
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... common weal increases , concern for individ- ual rights of men lessens . Our educational system deeply instills into a youngster the concept that he has an obligation to his country . In times of national danger the individual's ...
... common weal increases , concern for individ- ual rights of men lessens . Our educational system deeply instills into a youngster the concept that he has an obligation to his country . In times of national danger the individual's ...
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... common character . As it is , mind is never found producing movement without appetite ... but appetite can originate movement contrary to calculation , for desire is a form of appetite.10 There are two important points in these passages ...
... common character . As it is , mind is never found producing movement without appetite ... but appetite can originate movement contrary to calculation , for desire is a form of appetite.10 There are two important points in these passages ...
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Page 59 - And whether these forms be in all cases the most rational or not, is really not of so great importance. It is much more material that there should be a rule to go by, than what that rule is...
Page 79 - Every member of any labor organization shall have the right to meet and assemble freely with other members; and to express any views, arguments or opinions; and to express at meetings of the labor organization his views upon candidates in an election of the labor organization or upon any business properly before the meeting, subject to the organization's established and reasonable rules pertaining to the conduct of meetings...
Page 257 - But if the laws of the State are manifestly at variance with the divine law, containing enactments hurtful to the Church, or conveying injunctions adverse to the duties imposed by religion, or if they violate in the person of the supreme Pontiff the authority of Jesus Christ, then truly, to resist becomes a positive duty, to obey, a crime...
Page 205 - Hence he should at all times be accurate, should exercise appropriate restraint, should show respect for the opinions of others and should make every effort to indicate that he is not an institutional spokesman.
Page 46 - Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.
Page 297 - The whole story of the South may be summed up in a sentence: She was rich, and she lost her riches; she was poor and in bondage; she was set free, and she had to go to work; she went to work, and she is richer than ever before.
Page 297 - There was a South of slavery and secession — that South is dead. There is a South of union and freedom — that South, thank God, is living, breathing, growing every hour.