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... Evidence Section I. Proposition and Proof 66 III . Deduction and Induction 328 334 341 66 IV . Antecedent Probability , Example , Sign 354 66 V. Arrangement 379 · 66 VI . Persuasion 386 INDEX 401 THE PRINCIPLES OF RHETORIC . PART I ...
... Evidence Section I. Proposition and Proof 66 III . Deduction and Induction 328 334 341 66 IV . Antecedent Probability , Example , Sign 354 66 V. Arrangement 379 · 66 VI . Persuasion 386 INDEX 401 THE PRINCIPLES OF RHETORIC . PART I ...
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... evidence to support their view . They usually rely on a few hackneyed expressions which are no doubt peculiar to America , or on words and phrases which , so far from being in good use in America , are confined either to certain parts ...
... evidence to support their view . They usually rely on a few hackneyed expressions which are no doubt peculiar to America , or on words and phrases which , so far from being in good use in America , are confined either to certain parts ...
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... evidence , ought , 5 right , wrong , are words that mean exactly the same thing to scarcely any two men . Even persons who apparently agree in a definition attach different meanings to the terms in which it is given , each interpreting ...
... evidence , ought , 5 right , wrong , are words that mean exactly the same thing to scarcely any two men . Even persons who apparently agree in a definition attach different meanings to the terms in which it is given , each interpreting ...
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... evidence of more than thirty centuries to the wisdom and usefulness of those commandments . ' This was very effective . But the next morning I was travelling with Mr. Bright , and he told me the form in which the passage had first ...
... evidence of more than thirty centuries to the wisdom and usefulness of those commandments . ' This was very effective . But the next morning I was travelling with Mr. Bright , and he told me the form in which the passage had first ...
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... evidence , that the possessor of it must necessarily be the young heir of Ellangowan , by avowing his having first appeared in that country in the character of an astrologer . " 6 Force , as well as clearness , may often be gained by ...
... evidence , that the possessor of it must necessarily be the young heir of Ellangowan , by avowing his having first appeared in that country in the character of an astrologer . " 6 Force , as well as clearness , may often be gained by ...
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Page 192 - The question with me is not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Page 165 - Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought ? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side ? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Page 173 - Ah, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you, And did you speak to him again? How strange it seems and new!
Page 80 - I thought the writing excellent, and wished if possible to imitate it. With this view I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand.
Page 154 - Of old hast THOU laid the foundation of the earth : And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but THOU shalt endure : Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; As a vesture shalt THOU change them, and they shall be changed : But THOU art the same, And thy years shall have no end.
Page 5 - ON the sea and at the Hogue, sixteen hundred ninety-two, Did the English fight the French, — woe to France ! And, the thirty-first of May, helter-skelter through the blue, Like a crowd of frightened porpoises a shoal of sharks pursue, Came crowding ship on ship to St. Malo on the Ranee, With the English fleet in view.
Page 176 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept : and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son...