Lectures on rhetoric &cT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1820 |
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... elegant , they are seldom so persuasive as more free and unconstrained discourses . This , however , does not by any means conclude against premeditation of what we are to say ; the neglect of which , and the trusting wholly to extem ...
... elegant , they are seldom so persuasive as more free and unconstrained discourses . This , however , does not by any means conclude against premeditation of what we are to say ; the neglect of which , and the trusting wholly to extem ...
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... elegance , order , and strength , as there is between our conception of an object , when it is presented to us in a dim light , and when we behold it in a full and clear one . weak side of a cause , and learn , at the same time , what ...
... elegance , order , and strength , as there is between our conception of an object , when it is presented to us in a dim light , and when we behold it in a full and clear one . weak side of a cause , and learn , at the same time , what ...
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... elegant , he enters on the history of that famous trial in which his client was charged with corrupting the Judges . Cluentius and Oppianicus were of the city Larinum . In a public contest about the rights of the freemen of that city ...
... elegant , he enters on the history of that famous trial in which his client was charged with corrupting the Judges . Cluentius and Oppianicus were of the city Larinum . In a public contest about the rights of the freemen of that city ...
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... it , as an excellent example of managing at the Bar a complex and intricate cause , with order , elegance , and force . 56 LECTURE XXIX . ELOQUENCE OF THE PULPIT . ་ E 4 Lect . XXVIII . ] ORATION FOR CLUENTIUS . 55 55.
... it , as an excellent example of managing at the Bar a complex and intricate cause , with order , elegance , and force . 56 LECTURE XXIX . ELOQUENCE OF THE PULPIT . ་ E 4 Lect . XXVIII . ] ORATION FOR CLUENTIUS . 55 55.
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... elegant description , are but the secondary instru- ments of preaching in an interesting manner . The great secret lies , in bringing home all that is spoken to the hearts of the Hearers , so as to make every man think that the Preacher ...
... elegant description , are but the secondary instru- ments of preaching in an interesting manner . The great secret lies , in bringing home all that is spoken to the hearts of the Hearers , so as to make every man think that the Preacher ...
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Page 81 - If I were hungry I would not tell thee : for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats ? Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most high.
Page 352 - Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me : and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Page 342 - For the LORD is great, and greatly to be praised : he is to be feared above all gods.
Page 351 - He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God ; and he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds ; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Page 343 - Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? and who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
Page 347 - And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water : in the habitation of dragons where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
Page 336 - But first, whom shall we send In search of this new world ? whom shall we find Sufficient ? who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark, unbottom'd, infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way...
Page 300 - Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain, Then, hid in shades, eludes her eager swain ; But feigns a laugh to see me search around, And by that laugh the willing fair is found.
Page 81 - I have no need of a bull from your stall or of goats from your pens, for every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.
Page 174 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support...