Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising the Substance of the Article in the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana with Additions, &cW. Baxter, 1828 - 391 páginas |
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Página 6 - I propose in the present work to adopt a middle course between these two extreme points; and to treat of "Argumentative Composition," generally, and exclusively; considering Rhetoric (in conformity with the very just and philosophical view of Aristotle) as an off-shoot from Logic.
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