Dialogues Concerning Eloquence in General: And Particularly that Kind which is Fit for the PulpitT. Wood, 1722 - 326 pages |
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... shou'd han- dle this delicate Subject as a Philofo- pher , and a Chriftian : and this the late Archbishop of CAMBRAY has done in the following Dialogues . In the antient Writers we find ma- ny folid Precepts of Rhetorick , and very juft ...
... shou'd han- dle this delicate Subject as a Philofo- pher , and a Chriftian : and this the late Archbishop of CAMBRAY has done in the following Dialogues . In the antient Writers we find ma- ny folid Precepts of Rhetorick , and very juft ...
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... shou'd have a Poetick kind of Enthufiafm ; and know how to employ beautiful Figures , lively Images , and bold Touches , when the Subject requires them . But this Art ought to be entirely conceal'd : or , if it must appear ; it fhou'd ...
... shou'd have a Poetick kind of Enthufiafm ; and know how to employ beautiful Figures , lively Images , and bold Touches , when the Subject requires them . But this Art ought to be entirely conceal'd : or , if it must appear ; it fhou'd ...
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... Shou'd he not firft have explain'd the true Senfe of the Words , before he apply'd them to the prefent Occafion ? B. It had been better . A. Ought he not therefore to have trac'd the Subject a little higher , by en- tering into the true ...
... Shou'd he not firft have explain'd the true Senfe of the Words , before he apply'd them to the prefent Occafion ? B. It had been better . A. Ought he not therefore to have trac'd the Subject a little higher , by en- tering into the true ...
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... Shou'd a vain Delicacy make him afraid of too often repeating a Text that the Holy Spirit has dictated , and which the Church appoints to be used every Year ? Why fhould he neglect fuch a per- tinent Paffage , and many other Places of ...
... Shou'd a vain Delicacy make him afraid of too often repeating a Text that the Holy Spirit has dictated , and which the Church appoints to be used every Year ? Why fhould he neglect fuch a per- tinent Paffage , and many other Places of ...
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... shou'd condemn them . A. Right . In that you are exactly of PLATO's Opinion : For he wou'd not allow of any Poems or Tragedies in his Republick , that fhou'd not firft be exa- min'd by the Guardians of the Laws ; that fo you fo the ...
... shou'd condemn them . A. Right . In that you are exactly of PLATO's Opinion : For he wou'd not allow of any Poems or Tragedies in his Republick , that fhou'd not firft be exa- min'd by the Guardians of the Laws ; that fo you fo the ...
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Page 151 - For the Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Page 153 - Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord : lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
Page 244 - The moral artist who can thus imitate the Creator, and is thus knowing in the inward form and structure of his fellow-creature, will hardly, I presume, be found unknowing in himself, or at a loss in those numbers which make the harmony of a mind.
Page 154 - The LORD is slow to anger. and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked : the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Page 152 - Have ye not known ? have ye not heard ? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in...
Page 151 - He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings; so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Page 151 - Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him. He shall call to the heavens from above ; and to the earth, that he may judge his people. Gather my saints together unto me : those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
Page 152 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: that bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Page 30 - Studies of men, nothing may be sooner obtain'd, than this vicious abundance of Phrase, this trick of Metaphors, this volubility of Tongue, which makes so great a noise in the World. But I spend words in vain ; for the evil is now so inveterate, that it is hard to know whom to blame, or where to begin to reform. We all value one another so much, upon this beautiful deceipt; and labour so long after it, in the years of our education: that we cannot but ever after think kinder of it, than it deserves.
Page 151 - He is the Rock, his work is perfect ; for all his ways are judgment : a God of truth, and u-itliout iniquity, just and right is he.