Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 2W. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1783 |
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... faid , it is evident that Eloquence is a high talent , and of great import- ance in fociety ; and that it requires both natural genius , and much improvement from Art . Viewed as the Art of Persuasion , it requires , in its loweft ftate ...
... faid , it is evident that Eloquence is a high talent , and of great import- ance in fociety ; and that it requires both natural genius , and much improvement from Art . Viewed as the Art of Persuasion , it requires , in its loweft ftate ...
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... faid , that , like Jupiter , he thundered when he fpoke . Though his ambition be liable to cenfure , yet great virtues certainly he had ; and it was the con- fidence which the people repofed in his integrity , that gave fuch power to ...
... faid , that , like Jupiter , he thundered when he fpoke . Though his ambition be liable to cenfure , yet great virtues certainly he had ; and it was the con- fidence which the people repofed in his integrity , that gave fuch power to ...
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... faid to be the first who introduced the method of compofing in regular periods , which had a studied music and harmonious cadence ; a manner which he has carried to a vicious excefs . What fhall we think of an orator , who employed ten ...
... faid to be the first who introduced the method of compofing in regular periods , which had a studied music and harmonious cadence ; a manner which he has carried to a vicious excefs . What fhall we think of an orator , who employed ten ...
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... faid , that the high reputation of Ifo- crates prompted Ariftotle , who was nearly his cotemporary , or lived but a little after him , to write his inftitutions of Rhetoric .; which are indeed formed upon a plan of Eloquence very diffe ...
... faid , that the high reputation of Ifo- crates prompted Ariftotle , who was nearly his cotemporary , or lived but a little after him , to write his inftitutions of Rhetoric .; which are indeed formed upon a plan of Eloquence very diffe ...
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... faid to have written eight times over with his own hand . But thefe defects are far more than com- pensated , by that admirable and masterly force of masculine- Eloquence , which , as it overpowered all who heard it , cannot ,, at this ...
... faid to have written eight times over with his own hand . But thefe defects are far more than com- pensated , by that admirable and masterly force of masculine- Eloquence , which , as it overpowered all who heard it , cannot ,, at this ...
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