A System of Oratory, Delivered in a Course of Lectures Publicly Read at Gresham College, London:: To which is Prefixed an Inaugural Oration, Spoken in Latin, Before the Commencement of the Lectures, According to the Usual Custom, Volume 1John Ward, 1759 - 439 pages |
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Page 105 - ... for wise men often think very differently both of persons and things from the common people. And we find that learned and judicious men are frequently divided in their sentiments from the several ways of thinking to which they have been accustomed. Besides, different opinions prevail and gain the ascendant at different times. While the Romans continued a free nation, love of their country, liberty, and a public...
Page 53 - GENUS is what contains under it two or more sorts of things, differing in nature. From this head logicians reason thus : because every animal is mortal, and man is an animal, therefore man is mortal.
Page 58 - And first with regard to Cicero it might be said : That so great a man ought not to purchase his life at so dear a price, as the loss of that immortal honour which, by so great pains and labour, he had acquired. And this might be confirmed by another argument : That now he was grown old, and could not expect to live much longer. And from the character of Antony he might argue thus : That he was very crafty and deceitful, and only designed, by...
Page 69 - ... and endeavour to vindicate the fact from his good design and intention in doing it. He will say, that the laws have allotted punishments for the commission of such facts as are evil in themselves, or prejudicial to others; neither of which can be charged upon the action for which he is accused...
Page 130 - ... denied, by showing that they are not such as do necessarily accompany the fact, but might have proceeded from other causes, though nothing of what is alleged had been committed; and it will be of great service to assign some other probable cause. But sometimes the defendant does not only deny that he did the fact, but charges it upon another. Thus Cicero, in his oration for Roscius, not only defends him from each of these three heads, but likewise charges the fact upon his accusers. I come now...
Page 46 - ... those two things are unequal. Because it is the certain and known property of all quantities, that whatsoever two things are equal to a third, are equal to one another ; and where one of any two things is equal to a third, and the other unequal, those two things are unequal to one another. What has been...
Page 56 - They differ from contraries in this, that they do not absolutely exclude one another. An argument is drawn from things repugnant thus : He will do a man a mischief, therefore he does not love him. He loves a man, therefore he will not reproach him. SIMILITUDE is an agreement of things in quality. Thus Cicero proves, that pernicious citizens ought to be taken out of the state ; by the likeness they bear to corrupted members, which are cut off to prevent further damage to the body.
Page 346 - By which both of them mean a sentence consisting of correspondent parts, so framed, that the voice in pronouncing them may have a proper elevation and cadency, and distinguish them by its inflection ; and as the latter part returns back, and unites with the former, the period, like a circle, surrounds and incloses the whole sense.
Page 113 - The foes already have possess'd the wall : Troy nods from high, and totters to her fall. Enough is paid to Priam's royal name, More than enough to duty and to fame. If by a mortal hand my father's throne Could be defended, 'twas by mine alone. Now Troy to thee commends her future state, And gives her gods companions of thy fate : From their assistance, happier walls expect, Which, wand'ring long, at last thou shalt erect.
Page 134 - Peloponnesus against the Lacedaemonians ; but by the influence of a contrary faction at home their commissions were superseded, and other generals sent to command the army. But Epaminondas, being sensible that if he obeyed this order at that time it would be attended with the loss of the whole army, and consequently the ruin of the...