Science and Art of DebateNeale Publishing Company, 1908 - 280 páginas |
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Aaron Burr affirmative American analysis antecedent probability appeal argu argument from authority audience authority bate believe brief burden of proof cause clear common conclusion Constitution conviction course court Cuba definition desirable direct discussion disputed effect emotions essential evidence example facts fallacy favor feeling Filipinos George William Curtis given gument hearers Herbert Croft illustration jury justifiable lawyer line of argument logical Lyman Abbott main issue matter means ment method mind motives murder necessary negative negro one's opinion opponent oral outline persuasion Philippine Islands political practice present presumption principle proposition prove purpose ques question for debate reason reductio ad absurdum Reed Smoot refutation relation Rufus Choate Senate side sion speak speaker speech statement student tariff testimony thing tion tive trial true truth United United States Senate Webster whole witness words
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Página 71 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! Hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. Believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe. Censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Página 216 - The question with me is not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Página 90 - In no country perhaps in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful ; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavour to obtain some smattering in that science.
Página 169 - Federal constitution providing for the election of United States Senators by direct vo.te of the people, and we favor direct legislation wherever practicable.
Página 50 - Whose prerogative is it to decide on the constitutionality or unconstitutionality of the laws?
Página 123 - These are, to change that spirit, as inconvenient, by removing the causes ; ' to prosecute it as criminal ; t>r to comply with it as necessary.
Página 114 - Brusa and Smyrna. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. The Sultan gets such obedience as he can. He governs with a loose rein that he may govern at all...
Página 201 - For eighteen months, without intermission, this destruction raged from the gates of Madras to the gates of Tanjore ; and so completely did these masters in their art, Hyder Ali, and his more ferocious son, absolve themselves of their impious vow, that when the British armies traversed, as they did, the Carnatic for hundreds of miles in all directions, through the whole line of their march, they did not see one man, not one woman, not one child, not one four-footed beast of any description whatever....
Página 221 - Independence, and muzzle the cannon which thunders its ann»al joyous return; they must blow out the moral lights around us; they must penetrate the human soul and eradicate there the love of liberty; and then, and not till then, could they perpetuate slavery in this country!
Página 142 - Oliver Cromwell, his bitterest enemies themselves being judges, destitute of private virtues? And what, after all, are the virtues ascribed to Charles? A religious zeal, not more sincere than that of his son, and fully as weak and narrow-minded, and a few of the ordinary household decencies which half the tombstones in England claim for those who lie beneath them.