The Principles of Rhetoric and Their Application

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Excerpt from The Principles of Rhetoric and Their Application: With an Appendix Comprising General Rules for PunctuationFor the purposes of this treatise, Rhetoric may be defined as the art of efficient communication by lan guage. It is not one of several arts out of which a choice may be made, it. Is the art to'the principles of which, consciously or unconsciously, a good writer or speaker must conform.It is an art, not a science: for it neither observes, nor discovers, nor classifies, but it shows how to con vey from one mind to another the results, of observation, discovery, or classification, it uses knowledge, not as knowledge, but as power.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.