Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 2Thomas Kirk, 1807 |
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... never can produce the effect , of real eloquence . Even the show of eloquence which they make , will please only the trifling and superficial . For , with all tolerable judges , indeed almost with all men , mere declamation soon becomes ...
... never can produce the effect , of real eloquence . Even the show of eloquence which they make , will please only the trifling and superficial . For , with all tolerable judges , indeed almost with all men , mere declamation soon becomes ...
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... Never , when it can be avoided , ought we to espouse any side of the argument , but what we believe to be the true and the right one . Seldom or never will a man be eloquent , but when he is in earnest , and uttering his own sentiments ...
... Never , when it can be avoided , ought we to espouse any side of the argument , but what we believe to be the true and the right one . Seldom or never will a man be eloquent , but when he is in earnest , and uttering his own sentiments ...
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... never produce entire conviction without it . Of the rules of method , and the pro- per distribution of the several parts of a discourse , I am hereaf- ter to treat . Let us now consider of the style and expression suited to the ...
... never produce entire conviction without it . Of the rules of method , and the pro- per distribution of the several parts of a discourse , I am hereaf- ter to treat . Let us now consider of the style and expression suited to the ...
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... never to attempt a strain of Eloquence which is not se- conded by our own genius . One may be a speaker , both of ... never produce its highest effects ; but , at the same time , if the speaker lose command of himself , he will soon lose ...
... never to attempt a strain of Eloquence which is not se- conded by our own genius . One may be a speaker , both of ... never produce its highest effects ; but , at the same time , if the speaker lose command of himself , he will soon lose ...
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... never be forgotten by any who speak in public . " Est Eloquentiæ , sicut reliquarum rerum , fundamentum , sapientia ; ut enim in vi- ta , sic in oratione nihil est difficilius quam quod deceat vide- re ; hujus ignoratione sæpissimè ...
... never be forgotten by any who speak in public . " Est Eloquentiæ , sicut reliquarum rerum , fundamentum , sapientia ; ut enim in vi- ta , sic in oratione nihil est difficilius quam quod deceat vide- re ; hujus ignoratione sæpissimè ...
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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.