Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Tom 1Richardson, 1823 |
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... advantages of the institution as a branch of academical education , the King was graciously pleased to " erect and endow a Professorship of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the University of Edinburgh , and to appoint Dr Blair , in ...
... advantages of the institution as a branch of academical education , the King was graciously pleased to " erect and endow a Professorship of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the University of Edinburgh , and to appoint Dr Blair , in ...
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... advantage . Accordingly we find , that in almost every nation , as soon as language had extended itself beyond that scanty communication which was requisite for the supply of men's neces- sities , the improvement of discourse began to ...
... advantage . Accordingly we find , that in almost every nation , as soon as language had extended itself beyond that scanty communication which was requisite for the supply of men's neces- sities , the improvement of discourse began to ...
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... advantages of such studies , and the rank they are entitled to possess in academical education . * I am under no tempta- tion , for this purpose , of extolling their importance at the expense of any other department of science . On the ...
... advantages of such studies , and the rank they are entitled to possess in academical education . * I am under no tempta- tion , for this purpose , of extolling their importance at the expense of any other department of science . On the ...
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... advantages may be de- rived by them , from such studies as form the sub- ject of these Lectures . To them , rhetoric is not so much a practical art as a speculative science ; and the same instructions which assist others in composing ...
... advantages may be de- rived by them , from such studies as form the sub- ject of these Lectures . To them , rhetoric is not so much a practical art as a speculative science ; and the same instructions which assist others in composing ...
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... advantage , that they exercise our reason without fatiguing it . They lead to inquiries acute , but not painful ; profound , but not dry nor abstruse . They strew flowers in the path of science ; and while they keep the mind bent in ...
... advantage , that they exercise our reason without fatiguing it . They lead to inquiries acute , but not painful ; profound , but not dry nor abstruse . They strew flowers in the path of science ; and while they keep the mind bent in ...
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