The Principles of EloquenceHarper, 1842 - 308 pages |
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... human saga- city can discover ; and it only remains , there- fore , to inquire what there was in the condition and character of a Roman or Athenian audience , in the days of their greatest orators , to develop a perfection in the art ...
... human saga- city can discover ; and it only remains , there- fore , to inquire what there was in the condition and character of a Roman or Athenian audience , in the days of their greatest orators , to develop a perfection in the art ...
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... human grandeur . " Whatever doth not lead towards the principal points of a sermon is useless in an exordium . Let us , therefore , in this part of the discourse , avoid * " The first quality of an exordium is brevity . This , however ...
... human grandeur . " Whatever doth not lead towards the principal points of a sermon is useless in an exordium . Let us , therefore , in this part of the discourse , avoid * " The first quality of an exordium is brevity . This , however ...
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... human heart , and discovers its most secret springs of action . Every one imagines the discourse is addressed to him , and thinks the orator meant him only . Hence the remarkable effects of his instructions : nobody , after hearing him ...
... human heart , and discovers its most secret springs of action . Every one imagines the discourse is addressed to him , and thinks the orator meant him only . Hence the remarkable effects of his instructions : nobody , after hearing him ...
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... human nature can be employed , Le Maitre has the advantage . Both are con- cise relative to the common verbosity of the Bar , but Le Maitre has much more that might be retrenched . He has less simplicity , less purity of taste than ...
... human nature can be employed , Le Maitre has the advantage . Both are con- cise relative to the common verbosity of the Bar , but Le Maitre has much more that might be retrenched . He has less simplicity , less purity of taste than ...
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... human heart than by such questions following one another in rapid succession , to which there is no need of waiting for an answer , because that is unavoidable and uniform ? Can we better manage the pride of the guilty than by sparing ...
... human heart than by such questions following one another in rapid succession , to which there is no need of waiting for an answer , because that is unavoidable and uniform ? Can we better manage the pride of the guilty than by sparing ...
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Page 277 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it: I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance: for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Page 246 - Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
Page 146 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchang'd, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art. Art from that fund each just supply provides, Works without show, and without pomp presides: In some fair body thus th...
Page 60 - True wit is nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Page 123 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression and contempt, to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 107 - God is not a man, that he should lie; Neither the son of man, that he should repent: Hath he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good ? Behold, I have received commandment to bless: And he hath blessed ; and I cannot reverse it.
Page 141 - Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
Page 140 - Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. 16. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
Page xxvi - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21 (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing...
Page 276 - ... attack from the whites. Cresap and his party concealed themselves on the bank of the river, and the moment the canoe reached the shore, singled out their objects, and at one fire, killed every person in it. This happened to be the family of Logan, who had long been distinguished as a friend of the whites.