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... language , Rhetoric applies to any subject - matter that can be treated in words , but has no subject - matter peculiar to itself . It does not undertake to furnish a person with something to say ; but it does undertake to tell him how ...
... language , Rhetoric applies to any subject - matter that can be treated in words , but has no subject - matter peculiar to itself . It does not undertake to furnish a person with something to say ; but it does undertake to tell him how ...
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Adams Sherman Hill. what he has to say in appropriate language . I still believe that rhetoric should be studied at school and in college , not as a science , but as an art with practical ends in view . By supplying deficiencies that ...
Adams Sherman Hill. what he has to say in appropriate language . I still believe that rhetoric should be studied at school and in college , not as a science , but as an art with practical ends in view . By supplying deficiencies that ...
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... or of composi- tion . " A distinguished British scholar of the last cen- tury said he had known but three of his countrymen who spoke their native language with uniform gram- 1 matical accuracy , and the observation of most persons widely.
... or of composi- tion . " A distinguished British scholar of the last cen- tury said he had known but three of his countrymen who spoke their native language with uniform gram- 1 matical accuracy , and the observation of most persons widely.
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... language . However good English . interesting in themselves , however success- fully prosecuted , such investigations are of little prac- tical value in a study which has to do , not with words as they have been or might have been or ...
... language . However good English . interesting in themselves , however success- fully prosecuted , such investigations are of little prac- tical value in a study which has to do , not with words as they have been or might have been or ...
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... language as his or her , and one can only smile at a recent writer's hostility to this " unlucky , new - fangled word . " " 1 Fastidi- ousness . " There is , " says Landor , " a fastidiousness in the use of language that indicates an ...
... language as his or her , and one can only smile at a recent writer's hostility to this " unlucky , new - fangled word . " " 1 Fastidi- ousness . " There is , " says Landor , " a fastidiousness in the use of language that indicates an ...
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