Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 2W. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1783 |
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... lefs diftraction ; his declaiming by the fea - fhore , that he might accuftom himself to the noife of a tumultuous affembly , and with pebbles in his mouth , that he might correct a defect in his fpeech ; his practising at home with a ...
... lefs diftraction ; his declaiming by the fea - fhore , that he might accuftom himself to the noife of a tumultuous affembly , and with pebbles in his mouth , that he might correct a defect in his fpeech ; his practising at home with a ...
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... lefs impreffion on the mind . His reasonings concerning the law that was in question , are indeed very fubtile ; but his invective against Demofthenes is general , and ill fup- ported . Whereas Demofthenes is a torrent , that nothing ...
... lefs impreffion on the mind . His reasonings concerning the law that was in question , are indeed very fubtile ; but his invective against Demofthenes is general , and ill fup- ported . Whereas Demofthenes is a torrent , that nothing ...
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... lefs acute and sprightly people . They had neither the vivacity nor the sensibility of the Greeks ; their paffions were not fo eafily moved , nor their conceptions fo lively ; in comparison of them , they were a phlegmatic nation ...
... lefs acute and sprightly people . They had neither the vivacity nor the sensibility of the Greeks ; their paffions were not fo eafily moved , nor their conceptions fo lively ; in comparison of them , they were a phlegmatic nation ...
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... lefs acute , and lefs acquainted with the arts of fpeech . But this is not fatisfactory . For we muft obferve , that the Greek Orator fpoke much oftener before a mixed multitude , than the Roman . Eloquence admits of many different ...
... lefs acute , and lefs acquainted with the arts of fpeech . But this is not fatisfactory . For we muft obferve , that the Greek Orator fpoke much oftener before a mixed multitude , than the Roman . Eloquence admits of many different ...
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... lefs familiar to moft of us than the Latin , and that we are less acquainted with the Greek antiquities than we are with the Roman . We read Cicero with more ease , and of course with more pleasure . Independent of this circumstance too ...
... lefs familiar to moft of us than the Latin , and that we are less acquainted with the Greek antiquities than we are with the Roman . We read Cicero with more ease , and of course with more pleasure . Independent of this circumstance too ...
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