Opis: A Grammar of Rhetoric and Polite Literature - Alexander Jamieson

Excerpt from A Grammar of Rhetoric and Polite Literature: Comprehending the Principles of Language and Style; The Elements of Taste and Criticism; With Rules for the Study of Composition and Eloquence

This Grammar of Rhetoric is designed to succeed, in the course of education, the study of English Grammar. At that period, the young student is most likely to enter with vigour upon the study of a branch of education, which has been deemed essential, in our public seminaries, to form the mind for engaging in the active concerns of life. It is then that he should be taught, that a minute and trifling study of words alone, and an ostentatious and deceitful display of ornament and pomp of expression, must be exploded from his compositions, if he would value substance rather than show, and good sense as the foundation of all good writing. The principles of sound reason, must then be employed to tame the impetuosity of youthful feeling, and direct the attention to simplicity, as essential to all true ornament.

In prosecution of this plan, the Author has, throughout this work, first laid down the principles or rules of legitimate Rhetoric ; he has then given popular illustrations of these principles or rules; he has next confirmed his views, in the illustrations, by appropriate examples; and, finally, as these examples, or illustrations, furnished analyses or corollaries, he has endeavoured to make them tend to the improvement of the student's good taste, and of true ornament in composition.

Rhetoricians have usually introduced their pupils to a knowledge of their art, by some history of the origin and progress of language. Accordingly, in this volume, the Author has followed a precedent, which the world has long approved. The FIRST BOOK treats of the origin and structure of those external signs, which are used, as names, attributes, or actions of objects; or to denote the various operations of the mental faculties, with which it is our business to become acquainted.

The second book treats of the principles of General Grammar; or, in other words, of the principles upon which philosophical grammarians have attempted to discriminate and classify the component parts of human speech, whether spoken or written. An examination of The Nature and Character of the use which gives law to language, naturally followed the "Principles of General Grammar," and led to the development of the nature and use of verbal criticism, with its principal rules or canons, by which, in all our decisions, we ought to be directed.

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Szczegóły: A Grammar of Rhetoric and Polite Literature - Alexander Jamieson

Nazwa: A Grammar of Rhetoric and Polite Literature Comprehending the Principles of Language and Style; The Elements of Taste and Criticism; With Rules for the Study of Composition and Eloquence (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Alexander Jamieson
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330570876
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 366
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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