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... speaking in use among the moderns , compared with a view to their different advantages in respect of eloquence .. CHAP . VIII . Of the Consideration which the Speaker ought to have of the Hearers as such Men in particular ..... 99 ...
... speaking in use among the moderns , compared with a view to their different advantages in respect of eloquence .. CHAP . VIII . Of the Consideration which the Speaker ought to have of the Hearers as such Men in particular ..... 99 ...
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... speaking and in thinking . SECT . II . The application of the preceding principles .... The extensive usefulness of perspicuity . 218 220 iD . 221 ib . 222 ib . 226 237 238 239 241 242 243 246 ib . 249 .... ib . 257 265 When is ...
... speaking and in thinking . SECT . II . The application of the preceding principles .... The extensive usefulness of perspicuity . 218 220 iD . 221 ib . 222 ib . 226 237 238 239 241 242 243 246 ib . 249 .... ib . 257 265 When is ...
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... speaking , in the extensive sense in which I employ the term . For , in the first place , that it ought to be ranked among the polite or fine arts , is manifest from this , that in all its exertions , with little or no exception , ( as ...
... speaking , in the extensive sense in which I employ the term . For , in the first place , that it ought to be ranked among the polite or fine arts , is manifest from this , that in all its exertions , with little or no exception , ( as ...
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... speaking , against which , the best natural , but uncultivated parts , give no security ; and by the latter , the proper mediums are suggested , whereby the neces- sary aids of topics , arguments , illustrations , and motives , may be ...
... speaking , against which , the best natural , but uncultivated parts , give no security ; and by the latter , the proper mediums are suggested , whereby the neces- sary aids of topics , arguments , illustrations , and motives , may be ...
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... speaking there is always some end proposed , or some effect which the speaker intends to produce in the hearer . The word elo- quence in its greatest latitude denotes , " That art or talent by which the discourse is adapted to its end ...
... speaking there is always some end proposed , or some effect which the speaker intends to produce in the hearer . The word elo- quence in its greatest latitude denotes , " That art or talent by which the discourse is adapted to its end ...
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Page 341 - Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer ; thy name is from everlasting.
Page 341 - I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib : but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Page 196 - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
Page 284 - For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell, Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 22 - And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box.
Page 27 - She said ; then raging to Sir Plume' repairs, And bids her beau demand the precious hairs : (Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane...
Page 37 - I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly...
Page 183 - We next went to the school of languages, where three professors sat in consultation upon improving that of their own country. The first project was to shorten discourse by cutting polysyllables into one, and leaving out verbs and participles, because in reality all things imaginable are but nouns.
Page 309 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 377 - Pr'ythee, lead me in: There take an inventory of all I have, To the last penny ; 'tis the king's : my robe, And my integrity to heaven, is all I dare now call mine own.