A Practical System of Rhetoric: Or, the Principles and Rules of Style, Inferred From Examples of Writing (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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Excerpt from A Practical System of Rhetoric<br/><br/>-that there be some order in directing the attention to the most prominent excellencies of style and its most common faults. At the same time, it requires a degree of investigation which every instructer cannot give to the subject, to discover the reasons of the approbation and censure which are bestowed.
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