Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory (1810) |
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... thought of those things , the truth , or verisimilitude of which renders the cause probable . " Disposition is the ... thought into the mind , but the going of the mind in search of the thought " ( I : 165 ) .As regards the several ...
... thought of those things , the truth , or verisimilitude of which renders the cause probable . " Disposition is the ... thought into the mind , but the going of the mind in search of the thought " ( I : 165 ) .As regards the several ...
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... thought a fool . Now a fool can never be an orator . " If this reasoning is only ridicu- lous , that , which follows , is something worse . An orator , says he , must be an honest man to enable him , whenever it may be necessary for the ...
... thought a fool . Now a fool can never be an orator . " If this reasoning is only ridicu- lous , that , which follows , is something worse . An orator , says he , must be an honest man to enable him , whenever it may be necessary for the ...
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... thought , sup- posed the idea active and the mind passive ; the thought came into the mind . But , in its trans- muted sense , the action was changed from the idea to the person ; and invenire , to find , implied not the coming of the ...
... thought , sup- posed the idea active and the mind passive ; the thought came into the mind . But , in its trans- muted sense , the action was changed from the idea to the person ; and invenire , to find , implied not the coming of the ...
Contents
General view of rhetoric and oratory | 33 |
Objections against eloquence considered | 53 |
Origin of oratory | 73 |
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