The Principles of ArgumentationGinn, 1895 - 414 pages |
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Page 320
... Olynthiac Demosthenes shows , in the second paragraph , the significance for his audience of his words in the first paragraph : - “ Does any one of you , Athenians , compute or consider the means , by which Philip , originally weak ...
... Olynthiac Demosthenes shows , in the second paragraph , the significance for his audience of his words in the first paragraph : - “ Does any one of you , Athenians , compute or consider the means , by which Philip , originally weak ...
Page 329
... Olynthiac of Demos- thenes , persuade by showing to each class in the listening audience the special appeal that the proposed plan for succor of Olynthus has for it : - ―― " On all these accounts , then , we must unite to lend our ...
... Olynthiac of Demos- thenes , persuade by showing to each class in the listening audience the special appeal that the proposed plan for succor of Olynthus has for it : - ―― " On all these accounts , then , we must unite to lend our ...
Page 330
... Olynthiac and other Public Orations of Demosthenes , pp . 44 , 45 . C. R. Kennedy . Harper & Bros. 2 Attic Orators , vol . II , pp . 392 , 393 , R. C. Jebb . Lord Erskine , in the concluding words of his defense 330 ARGUMENTATION .
... Olynthiac and other Public Orations of Demosthenes , pp . 44 , 45 . C. R. Kennedy . Harper & Bros. 2 Attic Orators , vol . II , pp . 392 , 393 , R. C. Jebb . Lord Erskine , in the concluding words of his defense 330 ARGUMENTATION .
Page 353
... Olynthiac ( p . 320 ) pointed out to his hearers that their idleness and self - indulgence would mean ultimately a struggle for the very salvation of the country . Beecher ( p . 321 ) pointed out to his Liverpool audience that freedom ...
... Olynthiac ( p . 320 ) pointed out to his hearers that their idleness and self - indulgence would mean ultimately a struggle for the very salvation of the country . Beecher ( p . 321 ) pointed out to his Liverpool audience that freedom ...
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Aeschines analysis appeal argue Argument from Authority Argumentation Modern assertion Athenians Attic Orators audience Beaconsfield Beecher Behring Sea believe Black Sea brief proper capital punishment carefully cause clear conclusion consider Constantinople conviction convincing convincingness crime death definition Demosthenes division elegance emotions England evidence fact fallacy favor feel force forensic gained give given hearers Henry Ward Beecher ideas illustration important Jews kind laws Logic Lord George Gordon Lysias matter Matthew Arnold means ment method mind motives murder nature objection Olynthiac opponent Orations paragraph Peiraeus peroration person persuasion phrasing possible proof proposition proved true question R. C. Jebb reader reason refutation regard result Rhetoric rules Russia speak speaker or writer Specimens of Argumentation speech statement sub-heads suggestions sympathy testimony tests theory things thought tion topic treated truth unfair tackling wishes witness words
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Page 195 - First, sir, permit me to observe that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment ; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again : and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
Page 310 - Most of the letters have four forms in writing, depending on whether they occur at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end of a word or whether they stand separately.
Page 312 - If, then, the removal of the causes of this spirit of American liberty be for the greater part, or rather entirely, impracticable; if the ideas of criminal process be inapplicable, or, if applicable, are in the highest degree inexpedient; what way yet remains? No way is open but the third and last^-to comply with the American spirit as necessary; or, if you please, to submit to it as a necessary evil.
Page 314 - Pacific Ocean," as used in the treaty of 1825 between Great Britain and Russia...
Page 5 - I wish for nothing but to breathe in this our island, in common with my fellow-subjects, the air of liberty. I have no ambition, unless it be the ambition to break your chain and contemplate your glory. I never will be satisfied so long as the meanest cottager in Ireland has a link of the British chain clanking to his rags ; he may be naked, he shall not be in...
Page 78 - Sea, and what exclusive rights in the seal fisheries therein, did Russia assert and exercise prior and up to the time of the cession of Alaska to the United States?
Page 232 - Six hours to sleep, to law's grave study six, Four spend in prayer, the rest on nature fix.
Page 312 - Then, Sir, from these six capital sources, of descent, of form of government, of religion in the northern provinces, of manners in the southern, of education, of the remoteness of situation from the first mover of government, — from all these causes a fierce spirit of liberty has grown up.
Page 49 - When I mention religion, I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
Page 193 - ... is another ; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the paper ; and the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which in some manufactories are all performed by distinct hands, though in others the same man will perform two or three of them.