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Excerpt from A Practical System of Rhetoric, or the Principles and Rules of Style, Inferred From Examples of Writing
The following work has been prepared, that it may offer a regular system of study, and at the same time furnish such explanations and reasons of the rules of the' art as are needed. It will not effect its purpose, unless in connexion with its study the attention of students be directed to exertiples. They should also be frequently required to write criticisms, that may lead them to apply the principles and rules which are stated. The sale of a large edition of the following work in less than eighteen months'from its publication, and the testimony home to its utility, by many instructers, who have adopted it as a text book, have led to the publi cation of a second edition. By increasing the amount on a page, and also the number of pages, the work has been considerably enlarged, and it is hoped improved. The exercises for the study of style which have been added, will, it is thought, be regarded as highly impor tant. 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.
