Introduction to Rhetoric (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Introduction to Rhetoric This book makes no claims to originality of matter. It is not to be expected that an elementary treatise on rhetoric will announce the discovery of any new principles, and the giving of new names to old things or the use of old terms in new senses would only add to a confusion now unnecessarily great. No one authority has been followed throughout, but no new term has been suggested, or familiar word redefined, or new classification introduced, when it seemed practicable to borrow the usage of some standard work. Even where improvement might possibly be made, the author has preferred to follow a well-known usage rather than to increase the diversity in nomenclature already to be found in text-books on rhetoric. The presentation of the subject has been shaped in accordance with some ideas regarding the teaching of English which, the author believes, are coming to be generally held. The first of these is that rhetoric must be presented as a reasonable study. The pupil is too likely to gain the idea that rhetoric consists of arbitrary precepts laid down by some unknown authority. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.