The Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres; Or, An Introduction to Languages, Poetry, Rhetorick, History, Moral Philosophy, Physicks, &c. ...W. Strahan, 1769 |
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... Orator 304 Of the ftudy of the Scriptures 305 The fudy of the Father's 310 SECTION V. Of the Eloquence of the facred Writings 1. Simplicity of the myfterious Writings II . Simplicity and Grandeur 313 316 317 III . The 2 III . The beauty ...
... Orator 304 Of the ftudy of the Scriptures 305 The fudy of the Father's 310 SECTION V. Of the Eloquence of the facred Writings 1. Simplicity of the myfterious Writings II . Simplicity and Grandeur 313 316 317 III . The 2 III . The beauty ...
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... orator , whether he uses them as guiles to fupply him with certain rules for dif tinguishing the good from the bad ... orators , which were afterwards reduced into form , and united under certain heads ; whence it was faid , that ...
... orator , whether he uses them as guiles to fupply him with certain rules for dif tinguishing the good from the bad ... orators , which were afterwards reduced into form , and united under certain heads ; whence it was faid , that ...
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... oration , that of the tropes and figures , and the definitions very exactly , and yet be never the better qualified ... orator fhould fpeak very modeftly of himself , in order to conciliate the judges in his favour ; that he should not ...
... oration , that of the tropes and figures , and the definitions very exactly , and yet be never the better qualified ... orator fhould fpeak very modeftly of himself , in order to conciliate the judges in his favour ; that he should not ...
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... orators of our age , who " use their utmost efforts to difplay theirs . " He elsewhere gives another still more laudable ... orator , of all people , appears with the " worft grace , when his eloquence makes him vain . " Such a conduct ...
... orators of our age , who " use their utmost efforts to difplay theirs . " He elsewhere gives another still more laudable ... orator , of all people , appears with the " worft grace , when his eloquence makes him vain . " Such a conduct ...
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... oration for Murena , where he makes a comparison between the art of war , and the profeffion of the Jaw parallels may also be drawn between different actions , and the fame great orator compares the military virtues of Cæfar with his ...
... oration for Murena , where he makes a comparison between the art of war , and the profeffion of the Jaw parallels may also be drawn between different actions , and the fame great orator compares the military virtues of Cæfar with his ...
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