A Text-book on Rhetoric (1882) |
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... discourse of any kind . Thirty lessons , more than a third of the whole number , are devoted to this . While , strictly speaking , rhetoric cannot , nothing can , teach the pupil to think , he can be brought into such relations with his ...
... discourse of any kind . Thirty lessons , more than a third of the whole number , are devoted to this . While , strictly speaking , rhetoric cannot , nothing can , teach the pupil to think , he can be brought into such relations with his ...
Page 198
... discourse . The first division of oral dis- course we shall notice is CONVERSATION . - Conversation is discourse between two or more people . Much of oral discourse is written , but written to be spoken . Conversation never is . But its ...
... discourse . The first division of oral dis- course we shall notice is CONVERSATION . - Conversation is discourse between two or more people . Much of oral discourse is written , but written to be spoken . Conversation never is . But its ...
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... discourse . The subject - matter of these speeches is usually thoroughly prepared , but commonly the speeches are ... discourses delivered before lyceums and lecture associations . Such institutions are found , one in almost Speeches . 205.
... discourse . The subject - matter of these speeches is usually thoroughly prepared , but commonly the speeches are ... discourses delivered before lyceums and lecture associations . Such institutions are found , one in almost Speeches . 205.
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