Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 2Thomas Kirk, 1807 |
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... carry the force of conviction . In a former Lecture , when entering on this subject , I observed , that all high ... carried on , but where declamation and improvement in speech is the sole aim . Not even in such meetings , would I ...
... carry the force of conviction . In a former Lecture , when entering on this subject , I observed , that all high ... carried on , but where declamation and improvement in speech is the sole aim . Not even in such meetings , would I ...
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... carried on , whether that business be of much importance or not , it is always of dangerous consequence for young prac- titioners to make trial of this sort of play of speech . It may fix an imputation on their characters before they ...
... carried on , whether that business be of much importance or not , it is always of dangerous consequence for young prac- titioners to make trial of this sort of play of speech . It may fix an imputation on their characters before they ...
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... carry him through his discourse , with- out that confusion to which one is every moment subject , who has fixed no distinct plan of what he is to say . And with re- course . spect to the hearers , order in discourse is absolutely 10 ...
... carry him through his discourse , with- out that confusion to which one is every moment subject , who has fixed no distinct plan of what he is to say . And with re- course . spect to the hearers , order in discourse is absolutely 10 ...
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... carry his hearers along with him , as he warms in the progress of his discourse . For , if he runs before in the ... carrying him beyond certain bounds . If , when most heated by the subject , he can be so far master of himself as to ...
... carry his hearers along with him , as he warms in the progress of his discourse . For , if he runs before in the ... carrying him beyond certain bounds . If , when most heated by the subject , he can be so far master of himself as to ...
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... carrying the tone of declamation to a height that would now be reckoned extravagant . Demosthenes , to justify the unsuccessful action of Cheronæa , calls up the manes of those heroes who fell in the battle of Marathon and Platea , and ...
... carrying the tone of declamation to a height that would now be reckoned extravagant . Demosthenes , to justify the unsuccessful action of Cheronæa , calls up the manes of those heroes who fell in the battle of Marathon and Platea , and ...
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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.