A Text-book on Rhetoric (1882) |
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Page 161
... intellect is think- ing . To think is to detect an agreement or a disagree- ment between our mental pictures , or ideas , of things , and to judge them to agree or to disagree -the intellect af- firming or denying one of the other ...
... intellect is think- ing . To think is to detect an agreement or a disagree- ment between our mental pictures , or ideas , of things , and to judge them to agree or to disagree -the intellect af- firming or denying one of the other ...
Page 198
... intellect to reach the one , must go through the door of the intellect and that of the feelings to reach the other . This necessity both persuasion and poetry recognize . The staple of all effective persuasion is argument , and argument ...
... intellect to reach the one , must go through the door of the intellect and that of the feelings to reach the other . This necessity both persuasion and poetry recognize . The staple of all effective persuasion is argument , and argument ...
Page 230
... intellect and upon our moral nature . We are not to disparage poetry as an enlight- ening and as a reforming agency because it works inten- tionally neither upon the intellect nor upon the will . It works effectively upon both , even if ...
... intellect and upon our moral nature . We are not to disparage poetry as an enlight- ening and as a reforming agency because it works inten- tionally neither upon the intellect nor upon the will . It works effectively upon both , even if ...
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