The Principles of EloquenceHarper, 1842 - 308 pages |
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Page viii
... speaker could hardly be said to aim at persua- sion at all . His single object was to adorn the dead or living with his praises , or to stigmatize the guilty with his reproaches . If , on the oth- er hand , our end be persuasion , it ...
... speaker could hardly be said to aim at persua- sion at all . His single object was to adorn the dead or living with his praises , or to stigmatize the guilty with his reproaches . If , on the oth- er hand , our end be persuasion , it ...
Page xv
... speaker does not master his powers , but is mastered by them . When wanted , they are not always at hand ; and when drawn forth by circumstan- ces , they often transport him beyond his mark . But the eloquence of the trained and ...
... speaker does not master his powers , but is mastered by them . When wanted , they are not always at hand ; and when drawn forth by circumstan- ces , they often transport him beyond his mark . But the eloquence of the trained and ...
Page xvi
... speaker ( he means Bacon ) , who was full of gravity in his speaking . No man ever spoke more neatly , more pressly , more weightily , or suffered less emptiness , less idleness in what he uttered . No member of his speech but consist ...
... speaker ( he means Bacon ) , who was full of gravity in his speaking . No man ever spoke more neatly , more pressly , more weightily , or suffered less emptiness , less idleness in what he uttered . No member of his speech but consist ...
Page xx
... speakers are determined by that degree of fa- vour and attention which is vouchsafed to each . " To a great extent this is doubtless true . Where the ... speaker and hearer must feel , that great issues are XX INTRODUCTION . Of Panegyrics.
... speakers are determined by that degree of fa- vour and attention which is vouchsafed to each . " To a great extent this is doubtless true . Where the ... speaker and hearer must feel , that great issues are XX INTRODUCTION . Of Panegyrics.
Page xxi
Jean Siffrein Maury A. Potter. speaker and hearer must feel , that great issues are pending , and that it is eloquence , alone or chiefly , which will decide those issues . And , what is not less necessary , the electric influ- ence of ...
Jean Siffrein Maury A. Potter. speaker and hearer must feel , that great issues are pending , and that it is eloquence , alone or chiefly , which will decide those issues . And , what is not less necessary , the electric influ- ence of ...
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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.