The Orator's Touchstone
Author : Hugh McQueen
Publisher :
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 18,15 MB
Release : 1854
Category : Oratory
ISBN :
Author : Hugh McQueen
Publisher :
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 18,15 MB
Release : 1854
Category : Oratory
ISBN :
Author : Hugh McQueen
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 31,13 MB
Release : 2015-08-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781332516407
Excerpt from The Orator's Touchstone The Orator's Touchstone was written by Hugh McQueen in 1860. This is a 354 page book, containing 114099 words. Search Inside is enabled for this title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Prestwick House Inc
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 20,65 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 1580491626
This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Classic includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader appreciate Voltaire's complex approach to the human condition.FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE'S satiric attack, Candide, first appearing in 1759, mocked the Enlightenment notion that this is the best of all possible worlds and that suffering is merely the result of free will. Through the misadventures of philosopher and teacher Dr. Pangloss and his student Candide as they travel the world-fleeing invasions, earthquakes, pirates, and brutal executions-we learn that the true meaning of life is to "cultivate your garden."One of the world's most widely read classics, Candide is as rich and relevant today as it was when Voltaire wrote it.
Author :
Publisher : Prestwick House Inc
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 41,39 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1580493351
Author : James Joyce
Publisher : Prestwick House Inc
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 37,18 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Artists
ISBN : 1580495745
Describes the early life of Stephen Dedalus: significant memories from infancy, schooldays, family life, his first taste of sin, guilt, repentance-- and his passage to freedom as he elects to leave Ireland forever.
Author : Paul L. MacKendrick
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 28,57 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780299808969
Annotation Here, translated into modern idiom, are many works of the authors whose ideas have consitituted the mainstream of classical thought. This volume of new translations was born of necessity, to answer the needs of a course in Greek and Roman culture offered by the Department of Integrated Liberal Studies at the University of Wisconsin. Since its original publication in 1952, Classics in Translation has been adopted by many different academic insititutions to fill similar needs of their undergraduate students. This new printing is further evidence of this collection's general acceptance by teachers, students, and the reviewing critics.
Author : Mortimer J. Adler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 17,23 MB
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1476790159
Investigates the art of reading by examining each aspect of reading, problems encountered, and tells how to combat them.
Author :
Publisher : Prestwick House Inc
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 42,95 MB
Release : 2008
Category : American essays
ISBN : 1603890165
Author : Sophia Papaioannou
Publisher : Brill's Companions to Classica
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 27,50 MB
Release : 2021-12-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004373655
"This volume, examining the reception of ancient rhetoric, aims to demonstrate that the past is always part of the present: in the ways in which decisions about crucial political, social and economic matters have been made historically; or in organic interaction with literature, philosophy and culture at the core of the foundation principles of Western thought and values. Analysis is meant to cover the broadest possible spectrum of considerations that focus on the totality of rhetorical species (i.e. forensic, deliberative and epideictic) as they are applied to diversified topics (including, but not limited to, language, science, religion, literature, theatre and other cultural processes (e.g. athletics), politics and leadership, pedagogy and gender studies) and cross-cultural, geographical and temporal contexts"--
Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Sta
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,40 MB
Release : 2024-05-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
RHETORIC the counterpart of Dialectic. Both alike are concerned with such things as come more or less within the general ken of all men and belong to no definite science. Accordingly all men make use more or less of both; for to a certain extent all men attempt to discuss statements and to maintain them to defend themselves and to attack others. Ordinary people do this either at random or through practice and from acquired habit. Both ways being possible the subject can plainly be handled systematically for it is possible to inquire the reason why some speakers succeed through practice and others spontaneously; and every one will at once agree that such an inquiry is the function of an art.