Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volumen2Thomas Kirk, 1807 |
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... spirit , character , or manner . For every species of public speak- ing has a manner or character peculiarly suited to it ; of which it is highly material to have a just idea , in order to direct the application of general rules . The ...
... spirit , character , or manner . For every species of public speak- ing has a manner or character peculiarly suited to it ; of which it is highly material to have a just idea , in order to direct the application of general rules . The ...
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... spirit of that Eloquence which is suited to the pulpit . Let us begin with considering the advantages , and disadvan- tages , which belong to this field of public speaking . The pul- pit has plainly several advantages peculiar to itself ...
... spirit of that Eloquence which is suited to the pulpit . Let us begin with considering the advantages , and disadvan- tages , which belong to this field of public speaking . The pul- pit has plainly several advantages peculiar to itself ...
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... spirit of true piety would prove the most effectual guard against those errors which preachers are apt to commit . It would make their dis- courses solid , cogent , and useful ; it would prevent those fri- volous and ostentatious ...
... spirit of true piety would prove the most effectual guard against those errors which preachers are apt to commit . It would make their dis- courses solid , cogent , and useful ; it would prevent those fri- volous and ostentatious ...
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... this always dwell on his mind when he is composing , and it will diffuse through his compositions , that spirit which will render them at once esteem- ed , and useful . The most useful preacher is LECT . XXIX . ELOQUENCE OF THE PULPIT . 63.
... this always dwell on his mind when he is composing , and it will diffuse through his compositions , that spirit which will render them at once esteem- ed , and useful . The most useful preacher is LECT . XXIX . ELOQUENCE OF THE PULPIT . 63.
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... spirit- ual part of religion ; and the Jewish dispensation thereby vin- dicated from the suspicion of requiring nothing more from its votaries , than the observance of the external rites and ceremo- nies of the law . Such views of ...
... spirit- ual part of religion ; and the Jewish dispensation thereby vin- dicated from the suspicion of requiring nothing more from its votaries , than the observance of the external rites and ceremo- nies of the law . Such views of ...
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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.