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... affecting style , 376—378 . LECTURE IV . The delivery of a discourse , 379-389 . Grammatical or correct delivery , 379–382 . Rhetorical delivery , 382-384 . The practice of reading sermons compared with that of repeating them memoriter ...
... affecting style , 376—378 . LECTURE IV . The delivery of a discourse , 379-389 . Grammatical or correct delivery , 379–382 . Rhetorical delivery , 382-384 . The practice of reading sermons compared with that of repeating them memoriter ...
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... affecting images of this important truth ? Might he not have been content with the words of Genesis , 1 which are so natural and proper for this ceremony , and cho- sen by the church itself ? Should a vain delicacy make him afraid of ...
... affecting images of this important truth ? Might he not have been content with the words of Genesis , 1 which are so natural and proper for this ceremony , and cho- sen by the church itself ? Should a vain delicacy make him afraid of ...
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... affecting views of the beauty of virtue and the deform- ity of vice . So that all these arts , under the show of plea- sure , favored the most serious designs of the ancients ; and were used to promote morality and religion . Even the ...
... affecting views of the beauty of virtue and the deform- ity of vice . So that all these arts , under the show of plea- sure , favored the most serious designs of the ancients ; and were used to promote morality and religion . Even the ...
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... affecting you thus , they only please or divert you , and make you admire the brightness of their thoughts , or the beauty and propriety of their language , you may freely pronounce them to be mere declaimers . B. Stay a little , Sir ...
... affecting you thus , they only please or divert you , and make you admire the brightness of their thoughts , or the beauty and propriety of their language , you may freely pronounce them to be mere declaimers . B. Stay a little , Sir ...
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... affecting , persuasive art of eloquence . C. What do you say is the difference ? A. I say a philosopher's aim is merely to demonstrate the truth , and gain your assent ; while the orator not only con- vinces your judgment , but commands ...
... affecting , persuasive art of eloquence . C. What do you say is the difference ? A. I say a philosopher's aim is merely to demonstrate the truth , and gain your assent ; while the orator not only con- vinces your judgment , but commands ...
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Page 149 - Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Page 375 - Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Page 356 - For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
Page 439 - Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness...
Page 417 - For if we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
Page 136 - God is not a man, that he should lie;. neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it ? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Page 439 - Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
Page 349 - Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
Page 16 - While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name : those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the Son of Perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
Page 121 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art. Art from that fund each just supply provides; Works without show, and without pomp presides: In some fair body thus th...