An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors to which are Added Remarks on Reading Prose and Verse, with Suggestions to Instructors of the ArtW.C. Little, 1851 - 300 páginas |
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... mean to make what is in oratory called your point . When you stop , let it be with an elevation of voice , which will leave the sense broken and incomplete , then your hearers , being in expectation of something superlative , will ...
... mean to make what is in oratory called your point . When you stop , let it be with an elevation of voice , which will leave the sense broken and incomplete , then your hearers , being in expectation of something superlative , will ...
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... mean , Drawn to his part ; but other pow'rs as great Fell not , but stand unshaken , from within Or from without , to all temptations arm'd . Hadst thou the same free will and pow'r to stand ? Thou hadst : Whom hast thou then , or what ...
... mean , Drawn to his part ; but other pow'rs as great Fell not , but stand unshaken , from within Or from without , to all temptations arm'd . Hadst thou the same free will and pow'r to stand ? Thou hadst : Whom hast thou then , or what ...
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... mean- ing , a facility of imitation , and a variety of expression in voice and manner , which can only be acquired , even where the capability eminently exists , by much labor and continual practice . In the exercise of this figure ...
... mean- ing , a facility of imitation , and a variety of expression in voice and manner , which can only be acquired , even where the capability eminently exists , by much labor and continual practice . In the exercise of this figure ...
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... mean by this to censure the custom of preserving in brass or marble the shape and stature of eminent men ; but busts and sta- tues , like their originals , are frail and perishable . The soul is formed of finer elements , and its inward ...
... mean by this to censure the custom of preserving in brass or marble the shape and stature of eminent men ; but busts and sta- tues , like their originals , are frail and perishable . The soul is formed of finer elements , and its inward ...
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... mean- ing , but when reading the thoughts of others , we have to seek for their sense , which is not always ob- servable at first sight . It will be necessary , for those who wish to read correctly , either to a public assembly , or to ...
... mean- ing , but when reading the thoughts of others , we have to seek for their sense , which is not always ob- servable at first sight . It will be necessary , for those who wish to read correctly , either to a public assembly , or to ...
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Página 128 - The basis of our political systems, is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of Government; but the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.
Página 66 - Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery : But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Página 73 - And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul, the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit, that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
Página 124 - ... the palladium of your political safety and prosperity, watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion, that it can in any event be abandoned ; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Página 30 - With thee conversing I forget all time; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Página 41 - And I have loved thee, Ocean! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne like thy bubbles, onward: from a boy I wanton'd with thy breakers— they to me Were a delight; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror— 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane— as I do here.
Página 132 - Promote then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Página 39 - He stood, and measured the earth ; He beheld, and drove asunder the nations ; And the everlasting mountains were scattered, The perpetual hills did bow : His ways are everlasting ! " I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction ; And the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
Página 267 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Página 129 - Towards the preservation of your Government and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts. — One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the Constitution, alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown.