Eloquence a Virtue: Or Outlines of a Systematic Rhetoric (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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IT is believed that this little treatise upon Rhetoric possesses some characteristics which render it worthy of a place among the current English treatises on this subject. Perhaps no one will be ready to assent to all the positions laid down in it, and many may think that in its method and Spirit it is altogether too foreign to our own modes of thought and expression, to be of any worth to the English student. Still, if used in the right way, it is thought that it may be made to contribute to a broad and thorough disci pline in this department of culture. For no production, espe cially Of a foreign mind, Should be servilely received by the student, or allowed to exert an arbitrary and violent influence upon him He Should retain. His own individuality and nation ality in their most independent and determined forms, while, at the same time, he opens his mind and heart to all that is true and genial in a foreign literature. Non-intercourse is as impolitic and injurious in the world of contemplation, as it is in the world Of action.

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