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" A reader or listener has at each moment but a limited amount of mental power available. To recognize and interpret the symbols presented to him, requires part of this power ; to arrange and combine the images suggested requires a further part ; and only... "
The New quarterly review, and digest of current literature - Page 25
1858
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 28

1853 - 614 pages
...recognize and interpret the symbols presented to him requires part of this power : to arrange and combine the images suggested requires a further part ; and only that part which remains can be used for the realization of the thought conveyed. Hence the more time and attention it takes to receive and...
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Essays--scientific, Political and Speculative

Herbert Spencer - Philosophy - 1858 - 466 pages
...recognise and interpret the symbols presented to him, requires part of this power; to arrange and combine the images suggested requires a further part; and...understand each sentence, the less time and attention can be given to the contained idea; and the less vividly will that idea be conceived. How truly language...
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Essays--scientific, Political and Speculative, Volume 1

Herbert Spencer - Philosophy - 1858 - 460 pages
...recognise and interpret the symbols presented to him, requires part of this power ; to arrange and combine the images suggested requires a further part ; and...receive and understand each sentence, the less time aud attention can be given to the contained idea ; and the less vividly will that idea be conceived....
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Essays: Moral, Political and Aesthetic

Herbert Spencer - Political science - 1865 - 400 pages
...recognize and interpret the symbols presented to him, requires part of this power ; to arrange and combine the images suggested requires a further part ; and...understand each sentence, the less time and attention can be given to the contained idea ; and the less vividly will that idea be conceived. How truly language...
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Philosophy of Style: An Essay

Herbert Spencer - Literary style - 1872 - 70 pages
...recognize and interpret the symbols presented to him, requires part of this power; to arrange and combine the images suggested requires a further part ; and...understand each sentence, the less time and attention can be given to the contained idea ; and the less vividly will that idea be conceived. How truly language...
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Literature of the English Language: Comprising Representative Selections ...

Ephraim Hunt - American literature - 1872 - 658 pages
...presented to him requires part of this power; to arrange and combine the images suggested Iequires a further part; and only that part which remains can be used for the realization of the thought conveyed. Hence the more time and attention it takes to receive and...
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Essays: Moral, Political and Ęsthetic

Herbert Spencer - Political science - 1873 - 426 pages
...to him, requires part of this power; to arrange and combine the images suggested requires a-further part; and only that part which remains can be used...for realizing the thought conveyed. Hence, the more tune and attention it takes to receive and understand each sentence, the less time and attention can...
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A System of Rhetoric

Charles William Bardeen - English language - 1884 - 828 pages
...recognize and interpret the symbols presented to him requires part of this power; to arrange and combine the images suggested requires a further part; and...understand each sentence, the less time and attention can be given to the contained idea, and the less vividly will that idea be conceived. How truly language...
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A System of Rhetoric

Charles William Bardeen - English language - 1884 - 828 pages
...recognize and interpret the symbols presented to him requires part of this power; to arrange and combine the images suggested requires a further part; and...understand each sentence, the less time and attention can be given to the contained idea, and the less vividly will that idea be conceived. How truly language...
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A System of Rhetoric

Charles William Bardeen - English language - 1884 - 828 pages
...recognize and interpret the symbols presented to him requires part of this power ; to arrange and combine the images suggested requires a further part ; and...understand each sentence, the less time and attention can be given to the contained idea, and the less vividly will that idea be conceived. How truly language...
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