Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory (1810) |
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... direct representation of things to the memory and to the rational faculty . Figurative speech is an indirect representation of things to the senses and to the imagination ( II : 288 ) . When one is about to form a figure of speech ...
... direct representation of things to the memory and to the rational faculty . Figurative speech is an indirect representation of things to the senses and to the imagination ( II : 288 ) . When one is about to form a figure of speech ...
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... direct employ- ment of them all , they may be applied also indi- rectly under a fictitious presentment of facts , with the aid of hypothesis . The hypothesis of an ora- tor bears the same proportion to his thesis , that traverse bears ...
... direct employ- ment of them all , they may be applied also indi- rectly under a fictitious presentment of facts , with the aid of hypothesis . The hypothesis of an ora- tor bears the same proportion to his thesis , that traverse bears ...
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... direct , and the second oblique ; which the Roman rhetoricians distinguish by the names of principium or beginning , and insinuation . The direct introduction is always to be employed upon popular subjects , if any exordium is expedient ...
... direct , and the second oblique ; which the Roman rhetoricians distinguish by the names of principium or beginning , and insinuation . The direct introduction is always to be employed upon popular subjects , if any exordium is expedient ...
Contents
General view of rhetoric and oratory | 33 |
Objections against eloquence considered | 53 |
Origin of oratory | 73 |
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