Excerpt from A Practical Rhetoric: For Instruction in English Composition and Revision in Colleges and Intermediate Schools Opposed to this artificial process comes the fact, patent to every careful observer, that the boy learns to think and to express himself, with tongue or pen, just as he learned to walk - unconsciously, by imitation and observation; that he obtains his methods and means of invention from a hundred sources too subtle and too widely varying ever to be analyzed or classified that his style is largely ...
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Excerpt from A Practical Rhetoric: For Instruction in English Composition and Revision in Colleges and Intermediate Schools Opposed to this artificial process comes the fact, patent to every careful observer, that the boy learns to think and to express himself, with tongue or pen, just as he learned to walk - unconsciously, by imitation and observation; that he obtains his methods and means of invention from a hundred sources too subtle and too widely varying ever to be analyzed or classified that his style is largely formed, as is his. Character, by surrounding influences. And it is well that this is so; for it is this very subtlety and variety in the sources of invention that gives to every man that individuality which is too sacred to be destroyed or muti lated by inflexible theories. In Herbert Spencer's essay on The Philosophy of Style, - an essay that should be carefully read by every student of English composition - after admitting that good com position is far less dependent upon acquaintance with its laws than upon practice and natural aptitude, the author says: Yet, as facilitating revision, a knowledge of the thing to be achieved - a clear idea of what constitutes a beauty and what a blemish - cannot fail to be of service. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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