A Practical System of Rhetoric; or the principles and rules of style, inferred from examples of writing: with an historical dissertation on English style |
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Page 270 - For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men...
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| Pealkiri | A Practical System of Rhetoric; or the principles and rules of style, inferred from examples of writing: with an historical dissertation on English style |
| Autor | Samuel Phillips Newman |
| Publisher | John R. Priestley, 1837 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 13 okt. 2006 |
| Length | 292 pages |
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