The Principles of EloquenceHarper, 1842 - 308 páginas |
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... MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN UNION COLLEGE . 2 We must not judge so unfavourably of eloquence as to reckon it only a frivolous art that a declaimer uses to impose upon the weak imagina . tion of the multitude and to serve his own ends . It is a ...
... MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN UNION COLLEGE . 2 We must not judge so unfavourably of eloquence as to reckon it only a frivolous art that a declaimer uses to impose upon the weak imagina . tion of the multitude and to serve his own ends . It is a ...
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... moral culture , that profound sense of the infinite and invisible , that consciousness of " 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 . " — Acts ...
... moral culture , that profound sense of the infinite and invisible , that consciousness of " 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 . " — Acts ...
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... morals , who serve you instead of historians ; if you have become familiar with the language of orators , make trial of your eloquence upon yourself ; become , so to speak , the auditor of your own discourses ; and thus , by ...
... morals , who serve you instead of historians ; if you have become familiar with the language of orators , make trial of your eloquence upon yourself ; become , so to speak , the auditor of your own discourses ; and thus , by ...
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... moral discourses . Massillon hath sketched out the division of his ser- mon on confession , where we find so many beauties in detail , upon a passage in the Gospel . He takes for his text that verse of St. John , * There was a mul ...
... moral discourses . Massillon hath sketched out the division of his ser- mon on confession , where we find so many beauties in detail , upon a passage in the Gospel . He takes for his text that verse of St. John , * There was a mul ...
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... moral ; and that it succeeds much better in mysteries , * in funeral ora- tions and panegyrics , where the text will not suit the discourse unless it makes known the subject , and , at least indirectly , comprehends the division . It is ...
... moral ; and that it succeeds much better in mysteries , * in funeral ora- tions and panegyrics , where the text will not suit the discourse unless it makes known the subject , and , at least indirectly , comprehends the division . It is ...
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The Principles of Eloquence: Adapted to the Pulpit and the Bar Jean Siffrein Maury Vista completa - 1837 |
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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.