Rhetoric may be defined as the science of language forms, and the art of expression.

As a science, it treats of the principles that underlie discourse; as an art, it applies these principles to compo sitiou.

The consideration of the various sentence-forms is the first step necessary. In addition to this, we must find out, by trial, the kinds of discourse to which they are adapted: one form of sentence may be used in narration; another, in argumentation.

When words are the subject of inquiry, their particular meanings and their fitness for the positions in which they are to serve, must be attentively regarded.

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