| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1855 - 498 стор.
...MENTAL ENERGIES. 564. In seeking for the law which underlies these common maxims of rhetoric, we may see shadowed forth in many of them the importance...economizing the reader's or hearer's attention. To present ideas in such a form that they may be apprehended with the least possible effort, is the aim... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1858 - 466 стор.
...other rules of like origin. On seeking for some clue to the law underlying these current maxims, we may see shadowed forth in many of them, the importance...we condemn writing that is wordy, or confused, or intricate—when we praise this style as easy, and blame that as fatiguing, we consciously or unconsciously... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1858 - 460 стор.
...rules of like origin. On seeking for some clue to the law underlying these current tuaxims, we may see shadowed forth in many of them, the importance...of economizing the reader's or hearer's attention. To_ so present ideas that they may be apprehended with the least '•• possible mental effort, is... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1859 - 512 стор.
...MENTAL ENERÓLES. 504. In seeking for the law which underlies these common maxims of rhetoric, we may see shadowed forth in many of them the importance...economizing the reader's or hearer's attention. To prosont ideas in such a form that they may be apprehended with the least possible effort, is the aim... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1859 - 512 стор.
...MENTAL ENERGIES. 564. In seeking for the law which underlies these common max-ims of rhetoric, we may see shadowed forth in many of them the importance...economizing the reader's or hearer's attention. To present ideas in such a form that they may be apprehended with the least possible effort, is the aim... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1863 - 504 стор.
...they may be apprehended with the least possible effort, is the aim of most of the rules above quoted. When we condemn writing that is wordy, or confused, or intricate ; when we praise one style as easy, and condemn another as fatiguing, we consciously or unconsciously assume this as... | |
| Alexander Bain - 1867 - 352 стор.
...Catholic Church.'1'' " On seeking for some clue to the law underlying these current maxims, we may see shadowed forth in many of them, the importance of economizing the reader's attention." Here, as often happens, the principal subject of discourse is not the grammatcal subject... | |
| Andrew Dousa Hepburn - 1875 - 298 стор.
...composition result. He says : " On seeking for some clue to the law underlying these current maxims, we may see shadowed forth in many of them the importance...present ideas that they may be apprehended with the lesist possible mental effort, is the desideratum towards which most of the rules above quoted point.... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1876 - 76 стор.
...other rules of like origin. On seeking for some clue to the law underlying these current maxims, we may see shadowed forth in many of them, the importance...hearer's attention. To so present ideas that they may bo apprehended with the least possible mental effort, is the desideratum towards which most of the... | |
| John Nichol - 1879 - 186 стор.
...expressive is the best, and, in most instances, that which is the simplest is the most expressive. So to present ideas that they may be apprehended with the least possible mental effort should be our object in every sentence we write : for, as Mr. H. Spencer remarks, the time spent in... | |
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