The Principles of Eloquence: Adapted to the Pulpit and the BarD. and G. Bruce, 1807 - 275 páginas |
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... striking Passages 162 XXXVIII . Of common Places 164 XXXIX . Of Oratorial Preparation 166 XL . Of Oratorial Precautions 169 XLI . Of Hypothesis 171 XLII . Of Egotism of Style 172 XLIII . Of Bourdaloue · 179 XLV . Of Saurin XLIV . Of ...
... striking Passages 162 XXXVIII . Of common Places 164 XXXIX . Of Oratorial Preparation 166 XL . Of Oratorial Precautions 169 XLI . Of Hypothesis 171 XLII . Of Egotism of Style 172 XLIII . Of Bourdaloue · 179 XLV . Of Saurin XLIV . Of ...
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... striking Passages • 162 XXXVIII . Of common Places - - 164 XXXIX . Of Oratorial Preparation - - 166 XL . Of Oratorial Precautions - 169 XLI . Of Hypothesis - - - 171 XLII . Of Egotism of Style - • 172 XLIII . Of Bourdaloue - - - - 179 ...
... striking Passages • 162 XXXVIII . Of common Places - - 164 XXXIX . Of Oratorial Preparation - - 166 XL . Of Oratorial Precautions - 169 XLI . Of Hypothesis - - - 171 XLII . Of Egotism of Style - • 172 XLIII . Of Bourdaloue - - - - 179 ...
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... striking plans , merely by attending to the scope of his own genius . " 6 6 Plans are frequently singular and whimsical , especially when they are drawn from the text . a sermon to give such a one as naturally arises from the subject ...
... striking plans , merely by attending to the scope of his own genius . " 6 6 Plans are frequently singular and whimsical , especially when they are drawn from the text . a sermon to give such a one as naturally arises from the subject ...
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... striking examples of this excellent method . In defending Archias who had been his pre- ceptor , and of whom he always speaks with the most lively gratitude , Cicero thus divides his O- ration ; " I shall prove that Archias is a Roman ...
... striking examples of this excellent method . In defending Archias who had been his pre- ceptor , and of whom he always speaks with the most lively gratitude , Cicero thus divides his O- ration ; " I shall prove that Archias is a Roman ...
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... strike the people ; for indeed , what else is it than a brilliant stroke affecting and enlivening a multitude , which , at first view , merely presents to the Orator an extended and motionless heap , and which so far from participating ...
... strike the people ; for indeed , what else is it than a brilliant stroke affecting and enlivening a multitude , which , at first view , merely presents to the Orator an extended and motionless heap , and which so far from participating ...
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Página 241 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat: if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, ' Logan is the friend of white men.
Página 209 - Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
Página 97 - Europe,— not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts:— but 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,...
Página 241 - 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 harbour a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Página 117 - Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
Página 122 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same ; Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear...
Página 184 - And now, Gentlemen, on this serious day, when I come, as it were, to make up my account with you, let me take to myself some degree of honest pride on the nature of the charges that are against me. I do not here stand before you accused of venality, or of neglect of duty. It is not said that, in the long period of my service, I have, in a single instance, sacrificed the slightest of your interests to my ambition or to my fortune.
Página 40 - Something, whose Truth convinc'd at Sight we find, That gives us back the Image of our Mind...
Página 117 - How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come? Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die, "And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
Página 209 - Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable.