Aptness

• “Aptness and specificness do not require an epitome of the story; and a title like”

  Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story

• “Aptness in the story or anecdote, facility in graphic illustration, readiness in expressing emotion, happiness in the imitative faculty, for touching off the eccentric in character or incident, are talents that come into play, and in the exercise of these, gesture of course has an important place.”

  Public Speaking

• “It is impossible that any thing should be universally tasted and approved by a Multitude, tho 'they are only the Rabble of a Nation, which hath not in it some peculiar Aptness to please and gratify the”

  Parodies of Ballad Criticism (1711-1787) A Comment Upon the History of Tom Thumb, 1711, by William Wagstaffe; The Knave of Hearts, 1787, by George Canning

• “It is impossible that anything should be universally tasted and approved by a Multitude, tho' they are only the Rabble of a Nation, which hath not in it some peculiar Aptness to please and gratify the”

  Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series

• “Dryden says, "Aptness to unite; conformity; affinity; harmony and correspondence are the signs of friendship.”

  Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro

• “What was most promising in me, then, was the Aptness of my Ear; for I was soon allow'd to speak justly, tho 'what was grave and serious did not equally become me.”

  An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I

• “Aptness is inevitably hereditary among the Hindus, and, also inevitably, the son follows the profession of the father.”

  The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01

• “Aptness to teach was the prominent trait in his ministerial character, and in a land of strangers, he was esteemed, reverenced, and lamented.”

  History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I.

• “Aptness to take learning as well as of the Stength of his”

  Letter from Robert Carter to William Dawkins, January 28, 1724

• “Countries through which I passed; for it is impossible that any thing should be universally tasted and approved by a Multitude, tho 'they are only the Rabble of a Nation, which hath not in it some peculiar Aptness to please and gratify the Mind of Man.”

  Spectator, May 21, 1711

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