Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Bind 1Richard Phillips, 1808 - 623 sider |
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Side 42
... method , though the most general , and indeed the most powerful , is very apt , in unskilful hands , to become frigid de- clamation . I never , on this account , could ad- mire the French tragedies . Racine has less of bombast than ...
... method , though the most general , and indeed the most powerful , is very apt , in unskilful hands , to become frigid de- clamation . I never , on this account , could ad- mire the French tragedies . Racine has less of bombast than ...
Side 128
... method is however too mechanical to be pursued by a person of genius , and none but a person of genius will ever succeed in amplification or any subject . Yet I think I may recommend to you , when you are to write on any subject , to ...
... method is however too mechanical to be pursued by a person of genius , and none but a person of genius will ever succeed in amplification or any subject . Yet I think I may recommend to you , when you are to write on any subject , to ...
Side 209
... method or arrangement which he is to pursue in an essay or discourse on any gi- ven subject . Ideas crowd upon his mind ; he sees the subject in various points of view ; but he is uncertain what observation ought first to be introduced ...
... method or arrangement which he is to pursue in an essay or discourse on any gi- ven subject . Ideas crowd upon his mind ; he sees the subject in various points of view ; but he is uncertain what observation ought first to be introduced ...
Side 210
... methods in which didactic or argumentative disquisitions are to be conduct- ed . These methods are analysis and synthesis . The analytical method is when we proceed from particulars to the establishment of some general truth . Thus ...
... methods in which didactic or argumentative disquisitions are to be conduct- ed . These methods are analysis and synthesis . The analytical method is when we proceed from particulars to the establishment of some general truth . Thus ...
Side 211
... method is the only mode in which truth is to be investigated ; for this rea- son it is the method adopted in algebraic in- vestigations , and in those of experimental phi- losophy , where the author , from comparing the number of ...
... method is the only mode in which truth is to be investigated ; for this rea- son it is the method adopted in algebraic in- vestigations , and in those of experimental phi- losophy , where the author , from comparing the number of ...
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