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Pages : 526
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The Rudiments of English Grammar. A Course of Lectures on the Theory of Language, and Universal Grammar. On Oratory and Criticism
Author: Joseph PriestleyThe Rudiments of English Grammar ; A Course of Lectures on the Theory of Language, and Universal Grammar ; and On Oratory and Criticism
Author: Joseph PriestleyThe Rudiments of English Grammar
Author: Joseph PriestleyPublisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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The Theological and Miscellaneous Works
Author: Joseph PriestleyEnglish Grammar
Author: Joseph PriestleyPublisher:
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Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
The Rudiments of English Grammar; a Course of Lectures on the Theory of Language, and Universal Grammar; and on Oratory and Criticism
Author: Joseph PriestleyThe Theological and Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Priestley
Author: Joseph PriestleyThe Rudiments of English Grammar
Author: Joseph PriestleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
English Grammar; Lectures on the Theory of Language and Universal Grammar; and on Oratory and Criticism
Author: Joseph PriestleyPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230201177
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Languages : en
Pages : 226
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX N. I. OBSERVATIONS ON STYLE. (See titpra, pp. 45, 118.) The use of writitig, as of speaking, is to express our thoughts with certainty and perspicuity. But as writing is a permanent thing, it is requisite that written forms of speech have a greater degree of precision and perspicuity than is necessary in colloquial forms, or such as very well answer the purpose of common conversation. Style, therefore, which is the manner of writing, may be deemed perfect, when it adequately expresses the whole of what is intended; and every other fault or imperfection in a composition ought to be charged to the account of the thought or conception. But, since every defect in the meaning is indicated by the style, all critics, in their observations on style, generally comprehend under this term, what, strictly speaking, belongs to the other: and, as I approve of their reason, I shall, after their example, use the word in the same latitude. The correspondence between every person's thoughts and language is perhaps more strict, and universal, than is generally imagined: for since there can be but few perceptions or ideas existing in the human mind, which were not, in their very rise and first impression, associated with the words that denote them; it is almost impossible, but that ideas and the symbols, or expressions of them, must arise in the mind at the same time; and if any person will but attend to his own mental operations, he will be conscious that, even when he hath no use for words, he cannot so much as meditate or think without them. Whether their attendance be necessary or not, the ideas of words will accompany the ideas of things; and whenever a man's meaning cannot be expressed in words, he hath, in fact, only a confused apprehension...
Author: Joseph Priestley