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A Practical System of Rhetoric; Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ... - Page 234
by Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 292 pages
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Town's Third Reader: Containing a Selection of Lessons, Exclusively from ...

Salem Town - 1845 - 264 pages
...to do homage to faction, o^er. tear FHBV -j««oiiti (.-.aacKjn^, CO ,t .* «_t -jiteiLitrniai and on the decision of the hour. Then, words have lost...then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception, out running the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking...
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Elocution, Or, Mental and Vocal Philosophy: Involving the Principles of ...

C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 334 pages
...ornaments and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country,...and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. 0SX THK SOUL'S DEFIAXCB. I laid—to Sorrow 1 ! awful storm, Thai beat against my breast, " Rage on!...
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National Preceptor

Jesse Olney - 1845 - 348 pages
...their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. 6. Then, words nave lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate...Then, patriotism is eloquent ; then, self-devotion U eloquent. 6. The clear conception, out-running the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm...
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Elocution, Or, Mental and Vocal Philosophy: Involving the Principles of ...

C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 390 pages
...speech shock and disgust men, when their own lives and the fate of their wives, their children, anc their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then,...oratory, contemptible. Even genius itself then feels reouked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent ; then,...
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Elocution; Or, Mental and Vocal Philosophy: Involving the Principles of ...

C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pages
...ornaments and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country,...lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate orutory, contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher...
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Elocution, Or, Mental and Vocal Philosophy: Involving the Principles of ...

C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 396 pages
...disgust men. when their own ¿ves, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, haar on the decision of the hour. Then, words have lost...elaborate oratory, contemptible. Even genius itself then feeli tetniked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities, Then, patriotism is eloquent;...
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Elocution: Or, Mental and Vocal Philosophy

Charles P. Bronson - 1845 - 438 pages
...all elaborate oratory, contemptible. Kven genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in tire presence of higher qualities. Then, patriotism is...The clear conception, out-running the deductions of lojiic, the high purpose, of firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, •peakiiu on thn loruruc. beaming...
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Town's Fourth Reader: Containing a Selection of Lessons, Exclusively from ...

Salem Town - 1845 - 296 pages
...contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives,~their children, and their country, hang \ on the decision of the hour. Then, words have lost their newer, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itseff then feels rebuked...
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Practical Elocution

Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - 340 pages
...ornaments and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. 6. The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the...
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The Fourth Reader, Or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking: Designed for the ...

Salem Town - 1847 - 420 pages
...own lives, and the lives of their wives and children, and their country, hang on the decision of an hour. Then words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Then, even genius feels rebuked and subdued, as if in the presence of higher qualities. Then patriotism...
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