Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volumen2Thomas Kirk, 1807 |
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... knowledge of his own profession . Nothing is of such consequence to him , or deserves more his deep and serious study . For whatever his abilities as a speaker may be , if his knowledge of the law be reckoned superficial , few will ...
... knowledge of his own profession . Nothing is of such consequence to him , or deserves more his deep and serious study . For whatever his abilities as a speaker may be , if his knowledge of the law be reckoned superficial , few will ...
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... knowledge of the cause he is to plead ; again and again recommending patience and attention in conversation with clients , and observing very sensibly , " Non tam obest audire supervacua , quam ignorare necessaria . Frequenter enim et ...
... knowledge of the cause he is to plead ; again and again recommending patience and attention in conversation with clients , and observing very sensibly , " Non tam obest audire supervacua , quam ignorare necessaria . Frequenter enim et ...
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... knowledge , Eloquence , and industry . It must be laid down for a first principle , that the Eloquence suited to the bar , whether in speaking or in writing law papers , is of the calm and temperate kind , and connected with close ...
... knowledge , Eloquence , and industry . It must be laid down for a first principle , that the Eloquence suited to the bar , whether in speaking or in writing law papers , is of the calm and temperate kind , and connected with close ...
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... knowledge of the world , and those other talents which are requisite for excelling in the pulpit , is one of the great causes why so few ar- rive at very high eminence in this sphere . The chief characteristics of the eloquence suited ...
... knowledge of the world , and those other talents which are requisite for excelling in the pulpit , is one of the great causes why so few ar- rive at very high eminence in this sphere . The chief characteristics of the eloquence suited ...
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... knowledge both of the world and of the hu- man heart ; he is pathetic and persuasive ; and , upon the whole , is perhaps , the most eloquent writer of sermons which modern times have produced . * * In order to give an idea of that kind ...
... knowledge both of the world and of the hu- man heart ; he is pathetic and persuasive ; and , upon the whole , is perhaps , the most eloquent writer of sermons which modern times have produced . * * In order to give an idea of that kind ...
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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.