Rhetoric

The art which has for its object the rendering of language effective is called rhetoric . Without some study of the art of composition, no one can expect to write well, or to judge the literary work of others. "True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance." Ride—Drive. Fashion, both in England and in this country, says that we must always use the second of these words when we speak of going out in a carriage, although ride means, according to all the lexicographers, "to be carried on a horse or other animal, or in any kind of vehicle or carriage."