Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University, Tom 2Hilliard and Metcalf, 1810 |
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... practice of dividing the proposition by a formal partition , are , first , that the speaker is liable to forget some of the points , which he has laid down . Secondly , that he is exposed to omit important considera- tions , because ...
... practice of dividing the proposition by a formal partition , are , first , that the speaker is liable to forget some of the points , which he has laid down . Secondly , that he is exposed to omit important considera- tions , because ...
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... practice of the bar , might still be employ- ed to great advantage ; it would greatly abridge many a tedious argument , in which learned coun- sel are apt to waste the time of the court and their own , expatiating upon a series of facts ...
... practice of the bar , might still be employ- ed to great advantage ; it would greatly abridge many a tedious argument , in which learned coun- sel are apt to waste the time of the court and their own , expatiating upon a series of facts ...
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... practice of exercising his understanding upon the extent and proportions of his duties , combining with the constant custom of classing individualities and particularizing universals ; it was the logician uniting with the moralist ; it ...
... practice of exercising his understanding upon the extent and proportions of his duties , combining with the constant custom of classing individualities and particularizing universals ; it was the logician uniting with the moralist ; it ...
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... practice could be obtained only by the brightest endow ments of eloquence ; and Quinctilian gives it as his deliberate opinion , that accusation is as much easier than defence , as it is easier to inflict , than to heal a wound . Let us ...
... practice could be obtained only by the brightest endow ments of eloquence ; and Quinctilian gives it as his deliberate opinion , that accusation is as much easier than defence , as it is easier to inflict , than to heal a wound . Let us ...
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... practice in the profession . experience of long There are however three very common errors in the management of controversy , against which I think it proper here to guard you , and from which I hope you will here- after very sedulously ...
... practice in the profession . experience of long There are however three very common errors in the management of controversy , against which I think it proper here to guard you , and from which I hope you will here- after very sedulously ...
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