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... Sect . 13 6:11 The Master said , A gentleman covets the reputation of being slow in word but prompt in deed . Confucius , 5th century BC , The Analects ( trans . A. Waley ) , IV , Sect . 24 6:12 The Master said , Do not be too ready to ...
... Sect . 13 6:11 The Master said , A gentleman covets the reputation of being slow in word but prompt in deed . Confucius , 5th century BC , The Analects ( trans . A. Waley ) , IV , Sect . 24 6:12 The Master said , Do not be too ready to ...
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... Sect . 2 25 : 3 The genres of rhetoric are three in number , which is the number of the types of audience . For a speech is composed of three factors - the speaker , the subject and the listener - and it is to the last of these that its ...
... Sect . 2 25 : 3 The genres of rhetoric are three in number , which is the number of the types of audience . For a speech is composed of three factors - the speaker , the subject and the listener - and it is to the last of these that its ...
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... Sect . 1 47 : 3 Let us lay it down that the virtue of style is to be clear ( since a speech is a kind of indication ; if it does not indicate clearly it will not be per- forming its function ) , and to be neither mean nor above the ...
... Sect . 1 47 : 3 Let us lay it down that the virtue of style is to be clear ( since a speech is a kind of indication ; if it does not indicate clearly it will not be per- forming its function ) , and to be neither mean nor above the ...
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Introduction | 7 |
Language in Thinking and Thought | 9 |
Body Language | 23 |
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