...they were in very bad taste. I had not then learned that all true power in writing is in the idea, not in the style, an error into which the Ars rhetorica,...taught, may easily lead stronger heads than mine. I must now go back, a little, to make mention of some incidents connected with my brother, Ezekiel...

...of modern orators, Webster, to the same effect remarks : " All true power in writing is in the idea, not in the style ; — an error into which the ars...taught, may easily lead stronger heads than mine." It is in invention that the mind of the learner is most easily interested and most capable of sensible...

...well observed by Daniel Webster, " is in the idea ; not in the style — an error into which the are rhetorica, as it is usually taught, may easily lead stronger heads than mine." It is not a little remarkable how generally recent systems of rhetoric, in the English language at...

...true power in writing is in the idea, and not in the style, an error into which the Art rTietorica, as it is usually taught, may easily lead stronger...shepherd, and certainly I am no king. But we are friends, bom in the same country, about the same age, and educated at the same college. We embraced different...

...true power in writing is in the idea, and not in the style — an error into which the Ars Rbctorica, as it is usually taught, may easily lead stronger heads than mine." At this time Mr. Wehster seems to have formed a very low estimate of his own abilities. While teaching...

...true power in writing is in the idea, and not in the style — an error into which the Ars Rhctorica, as it is usually taught, may easily lead stronger heads than mine." At this time Mr. Webster seems to have formed a very low estimate of his own abilities. While teaching...

...of modern orators, Webster, to the same effect remarks: " All true power in writing is in the idea, not in the style ; — an error into which the ars...taught, may easily lead stronger heads than mine." It is in invention that the mind of the learner is most easily interested and most capable of sensible...

...of modern orators, Webster, to the same effect remarks : " All true power in writing is in the idea, not in the style ; — an error into which the ars...taught, may easily lead stronger heads than mine." It is in invention that the mind of the learner is most easily interested and most capable of sensible...

...learned that all tme power in writing is in the idea, not in the style; an error into which the Art rhetorica, as it is usually taught, may easily lead stronger heads than mine." Among his class-mates with whom he kept up a correspondence during his life, was my own excellent pastor,...

...learned that all true power in writing is in the idea, not in the style, an error into which the Arg ho never missed any the spring of 1799, at the May vacation, being then Sophomore, I visited my family, and then held serious...