 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Literary Criticism - 1855 - 498 pages
...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 - Philosophy - 1858 - 466 pages
...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 - Philosophy - 1858 - 460 pages
...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 - Criticism - 1859 - 512 pages
...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 - Criticism - 1859 - 512 pages
...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 - Criticism - 1863 - 504 pages
...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 - English language - 1867 - 352 pages
...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 - English language - 1875 - 298 pages
...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 - Literary style - 1876 - 76 pages
...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 - English language - 1879 - 186 pages
...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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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 or hearer's attention. To so present ideas that they may be apprehended with the least possible... 
