Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volumen2Thomas Kirk, 1807 |
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... course ; at any rate , it demands only their secondary study : " Cura sit verborum ; solicitudo rerum . " " To your expression be attentive , but about your matter be solicitous , " is an advice of Quintilian , which cannot be too often ...
... course ; at any rate , it demands only their secondary study : " Cura sit verborum ; solicitudo rerum . " " To your expression be attentive , but about your matter be solicitous , " is an advice of Quintilian , which cannot be too often ...
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... course which the debate takes ; and as no man can exactly foresee this , one who trusts to a set speech , composed in his closet , will , on many occasions , be thrown out of the ground which he had taken . He will find it pre ...
... course which the debate takes ; and as no man can exactly foresee this , one who trusts to a set speech , composed in his closet , will , on many occasions , be thrown out of the ground which he had taken . He will find it pre ...
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... with- out that confusion to which one is every moment subject , who has fixed no distinct plan of what he is to say . And with re- course . spect to the hearers , order in discourse is absolutely 10 ELOQUENCE OF LECT . XXVII .
... with- out that confusion to which one is every moment subject , who has fixed no distinct plan of what he is to say . And with re- course . spect to the hearers , order in discourse is absolutely 10 ELOQUENCE OF LECT . XXVII .
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... course of passion , and leaves them behind ; if they are not tuned , if we may speak so , in unison to him , the discord will presently be felt , and be very grating . Let a speaker have ever so good reason to be animated and fired by ...
... course of passion , and leaves them behind ; if they are not tuned , if we may speak so , in unison to him , the discord will presently be felt , and be very grating . Let a speaker have ever so good reason to be animated and fired by ...
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... course , it is chiefly , or solely , to the understanding that his El- oquence is addressed . This is , a characteristical difference which ought ever to be kept in view . In the next place , Speakers at the bar address themselves to ...
... course , it is chiefly , or solely , to the understanding that his El- oquence is addressed . This is , a characteristical difference which ought ever to be kept in view . In the next place , Speakers at the bar address themselves to ...
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Página 239 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm.
Página 243 - Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. Ay me, I fondly dream ! Had ye been there...
Página 247 - Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name : bring an offering, and come into his courts. O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness : fear before him, all the earth.
Página 255 - 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.
Página 248 - 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.
Página 254 - The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, 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.
Página 67 - Gather my saints together unto me ; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. 6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness : for God is judge himself. Selah. 7 Hear, 0 my people, and I will speak; 0 Israel, and I will testify against thee : I am God, even thy God.
Página 14 - ... semperque in omni parte orationis , ut vitae, quid deceat, est considerandum : quod et in re, de qua agitur , positum est, et in personis et eorum , qui dicunt , et eorum , qui audiunt.
Página 307 - He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful...
Página 251 - 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.