Kindred Arts: Conversation and Public SpeakingMacmillan, 1929 - 200 Seiten |
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... imagination presents per- tinent pictures in the concrete , our stimulated reason detects error or fortifies the truth , in- congruity amuses and evokes witty sallies , and one experience encourages the recounting of another . Montaigne ...
... imagination presents per- tinent pictures in the concrete , our stimulated reason detects error or fortifies the truth , in- congruity amuses and evokes witty sallies , and one experience encourages the recounting of another . Montaigne ...
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... imagination , the product of the author's re- flective faculties . His art may portray a verisi- militude of spontaneity , but even genius will fall short of picturing emotions which are the result of a successful exercise of the ...
... imagination , the product of the author's re- flective faculties . His art may portray a verisi- militude of spontaneity , but even genius will fall short of picturing emotions which are the result of a successful exercise of the ...
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... imagination ; for in fleeting comments about acquaintances we do not em- ploy chilling accuracy . But harmless exaggera- tion does no harm . In his Essay on Athenian Orators , Macaulay says : " Men of great conversational powers al ...
... imagination ; for in fleeting comments about acquaintances we do not em- ploy chilling accuracy . But harmless exaggera- tion does no harm . In his Essay on Athenian Orators , Macaulay says : " Men of great conversational powers al ...
Inhalt
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS | 3 |
EFFECT OF SOCIAL CHANGES IN AMERICA | 10 |
OCCASIONS SUITED TO THE CULTIVATION | 20 |
Urheberrecht | |
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