The Principles of EloquenceHarper, 1842 - 308 páginas |
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... elegantly ( though the saying be now popular ) , that virtue , if she could be seen , would move great love and af- fection but rhetoric paints our virtue and goodness to the life , and makes them in a sort conspicuous . For , seeing ...
... elegantly ( though the saying be now popular ) , that virtue , if she could be seen , would move great love and af- fection but rhetoric paints our virtue and goodness to the life , and makes them in a sort conspicuous . For , seeing ...
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... elegant arts should flourish , and the most fault- less models be framed to satisfy their cravings for the beautiful ? Spirits finely touched and modulated to his uses , called the orator to do his utmost . An audience was always ready ...
... elegant arts should flourish , and the most fault- less models be framed to satisfy their cravings for the beautiful ? Spirits finely touched and modulated to his uses , called the orator to do his utmost . An audience was always ready ...
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... elegant and ingenious , the discerning and coercive power of judgment should mark and restrain the excursions of a wanton imagination ; in other words , the austerity of reason should blend itself with the gayety of the graces . The ...
... elegant and ingenious , the discerning and coercive power of judgment should mark and restrain the excursions of a wanton imagination ; in other words , the austerity of reason should blend itself with the gayety of the graces . The ...
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... elegant writer . But I am not aware that the public opinion allows him the same superiority as an orator , although he hath handled many subjects worthy of the highest strains of eloquence . This illustrious magistrate was not as yet ...
... elegant writer . But I am not aware that the public opinion allows him the same superiority as an orator , although he hath handled many subjects worthy of the highest strains of eloquence . This illustrious magistrate was not as yet ...
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... elegance is the second . In the power of statement I do not perceive that he is inferior to Patru ; both are excellent . Wherever great moral or social top- ics , or extensive views of history and human nature can be employed , Le ...
... elegance is the second . In the power of statement I do not perceive that he is inferior to Patru ; both are excellent . Wherever great moral or social top- ics , or extensive views of history and human nature can be employed , Le ...
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The Principles of Eloquence: Adapted to the Pulpit and the Bar Jean Siffrein Maury Vista completa - 1837 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 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.
Página 246 - Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 141 - Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.