Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 2Thomas Kirk, 1807 |
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... appear a paradox ; yet it is a certain truth , that our past misfortunes afford a circumstance most favourable of all others to our future hopes . † And what is that ? even that our present difficulties are owing entirely to our total ...
... appear a paradox ; yet it is a certain truth , that our past misfortunes afford a circumstance most favourable of all others to our future hopes . † And what is that ? even that our present difficulties are owing entirely to our total ...
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... appear , and his character be exposed . For , as in our while a man is in apparent health , the effect of som debility , which has been growing upon him , may , fo . be concealed ; but as soon as it comes the length of all his secret ...
... appear , and his character be exposed . For , as in our while a man is in apparent health , the effect of som debility , which has been growing upon him , may , fo . be concealed ; but as soon as it comes the length of all his secret ...
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... appear so magnificent on paper only ; great and terrible in your decrees , in execution weak and contemp- tible . But let your army be made up chiefly of the native forces of the state ; let it be an Athenian strength to which you are ...
... appear so magnificent on paper only ; great and terrible in your decrees , in execution weak and contemp- tible . But let your army be made up chiefly of the native forces of the state ; let it be an Athenian strength to which you are ...
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... appear there in the Toga of a Roman law- yer . Before I descend to more particular directions concerning the Eloquence of the bar , I must be allowed to take notice that the foundation of a lawyer's reputation and success , must always ...
... appear there in the Toga of a Roman law- yer . Before I descend to more particular directions concerning the Eloquence of the bar , I must be allowed to take notice that the foundation of a lawyer's reputation and success , must always ...
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... appear- ance which he makes is an appeal to the public , whose decision seidom fails of being just , because it is impartial . Interest and friends may set forward a young pleader with peculiar advan- tages beyond others , at the ...
... appear- ance which he makes is an appeal to the public , whose decision seidom fails of being just , because it is impartial . Interest and friends may set forward a young pleader with peculiar advan- tages beyond others , at the ...
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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.