Direct, comprehensive, well organized, simple in statement, "Elements of Rhetoric" is in all respects well fitted to fulfill its assigned role as a textbook. The remarks on practical problems and the examples and analogies confirm contemporary reports that Whately was himself a talented and stimulating teacher. aaaaaaaaaaa The modern field of speech was born near the beginning of the twentieth century, some seventy years after Whately wrote. But influential leaders in the new field endorsed WhatelyOCOs judgments, and ...
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Direct, comprehensive, well organized, simple in statement, "Elements of Rhetoric" is in all respects well fitted to fulfill its assigned role as a textbook. The remarks on practical problems and the examples and analogies confirm contemporary reports that Whately was himself a talented and stimulating teacher. aaaaaaaaaaa The modern field of speech was born near the beginning of the twentieth century, some seventy years after Whately wrote. But influential leaders in the new field endorsed WhatelyOCOs judgments, and courses and textbooks in public address have remained strongly influenced by his ideas. WhatelyOCOs views on a number of major questions in rhetoric have proved sound and fruitful during many decades of practice, and his book remains one of the most influential works on the subject. a"
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Good. Hardcover with green cloth boards, 1851, octavo, 319pp., not illustrated. Book good with top 1.5" of spine missing, crack to bottom of spine, toning to spine and edges of boards, binding tight, text has some foxing and toning throughout. No DJ.
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Good+ condition. Book. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. 545 pages of text including index, followed by [vi] of publishers advertisement. Brown hardcover binding is not holding together; both boards are detached, and spine is mostly lacking and what remains is partially detached; text block is solid. Previous owner's name on front endpaper, while he was at Washington & Lee University in Lexington, VA in 1878-1879; W. B. T. Harris. This is likely the brother of author and traveller Lancelot Minor Harris. Several pages creased at top corner, and profuse pencil notations on endpapers, and minor underlining throughout text.
