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" Work, on the one hand, to exhibit, he does not say, a correct map, but a tolerable sketch of the human mind ; and, aided by the lights which the Poet and the Orator so amply furnish, to disclose its secret movements, tracing its principal channels of... "
Memoirs of the life and writings of ... Henry Home of Kames [by A.F. Tytler]. - Page 327
by Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1807
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The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 1

George Campbell - 1801 - 462 pages
...which the poet and the orator so amply furnish, to disclose its secret movements, tracing its principal channels of perception and action, as near as possible,...to operate on the soul of the hearer, in the way of informing, convincing, pleasing, moving, or persuading. In the prosecution of a design so extensive,...
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The Works of George Campbell: Philosophy of rhetoric

George Campbell - 1840 - 450 pages
...which the Poet and the Orator so amply furnish, to disclose its secret movements, tracing its principal channels of perception and action, as near as possible,...to operate on the soul of the hearer, in the way of informing, convincing, pleasing, moving, or persuading. In the prosecution of a design so extensive,...
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The Philosophy of Rhetoric

George Campbell - 1849 - 472 pages
...which the poet and the orator so amply furnish, to disclose its secret movements, tracing its principal channels of perception and action, as near as possible,...to operate on the soul of the hearer, in the way of informing, convincing, pleasing, moving, or persuading. In the prosecution of a design so extensive...
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The Philosophy of Rhetoric

George Campbell - 1859 - 460 pages
...the poet and the orator so amply 'furnish, to disclose its secret move. ments, tracing its principal channels of perception and action, as near as possible,...the other hand, from the science of human nature, to as- • certain, with greater precision, the radical principles of that art, whose object it is, by...
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The Philosophy of Rhetoric

George Campbell - 1860 - 458 pages
...which the poet and the orator so amply furnish, to disclose its secret movements, tracing its principal channels of perception and action, as near as possible,...to operate on the soul of the hearer, in the way of informing, convincing, pleasing, moving, or persuading. In the prosecution of a design so extensive...
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Aberdeen University Studies, Issue 19

1906 - 614 pages
...which the poet and the orator so amply furnish, to disclose its secret movements, tracing its principal channels of perception and action, as near as possible,...to operate on the soul of the hearer, in the way of informing, convincing, pleasing, moving, or persuading." It is psychology, then, applied to rhetoric...
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Rhetoric in the European Tradition

Thomas Conley - 1994 - 336 pages
...philosophy of rhetoric.31 The goal of the Philosophy of Rhetoric, Campbell explains in the preface, is "to ascertain with greater precision, the radical...to operate on the soul of the hearer, in the way of informing, convincing, pleasing, moving, or persuading (p. xliii). In pursuit of this, Campbell divides...
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Sprachtheorien der Neuzeit, Volume 1

Peter Schmitter - 1999 - 454 pages
...employ the term" (Campbell [1776] 1963: 1 and xlix). He wished to expound "the radical principles ofthat art, whose object it is, by the use of language, to operate on the soul of the hearer, in the way of informing, convincing, pleasing, moving, or persuading" (p. xliii). But Campbell did not only provide...
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The Resistant Writer: Rhetoric as Immunity, 1850 to the Present

Charles Paine - 1999 - 284 pages
...which the Poet and the Orator so amply furnish, to disclose its secret movements, tracing its principle channels of perception and action, as near as possible, to their source" (Ixvii). Similarly, Berlin proposes that by examining rhetorical training, we can better understand...
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Upstart Talents: Rhetoric and the Career of Reason in English Romantic ...

James Mulvihill - 2004 - 300 pages
...Rhetoric, proposing to study the mind in order "to disclose its secret movements, tracing its principal channels of perception and action, as near as possible,...to operate on the soul of the hearer, in the way of informing, convincing, pleasing, moving, or persuading" (PR xliii). While he hopes to explain rhetoric...
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