Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Том 2Thomas Kirk, 1807 |
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... action . Hence their influence in his own time ; hence their fame at this day . Such a pattern as this , public speakers ought to set before them for imitation , rather than follow the track of those loose and frothy declaimers , who ...
... action . Hence their influence in his own time ; hence their fame at this day . Such a pattern as this , public speakers ought to set before them for imitation , rather than follow the track of those loose and frothy declaimers , who ...
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... action of Cheronæa , calls up the manes of those heroes who fell in the battle of Marathon and Platea , and swears by them that their fellow - citizens had done well , in their endeavours to support the same cause . Cicero , in his ...
... action of Cheronæa , calls up the manes of those heroes who fell in the battle of Marathon and Platea , and swears by them that their fellow - citizens had done well , in their endeavours to support the same cause . Cicero , in his ...
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... actions ? Is there any man so weak as to imagine that it is for the sake of those paltry villages of Thrace , Drongylus , and Cabyle , and Mastira , that Philip is now braving the utmost dangers , and enduring the severity of toils and ...
... actions ? Is there any man so weak as to imagine that it is for the sake of those paltry villages of Thrace , Drongylus , and Cabyle , and Mastira , that Philip is now braving the utmost dangers , and enduring the severity of toils and ...
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... action is spent by us in preparing ; and the issues of war will not wait for our slow and irresolute measures . " Consider then your present situation , and make such pro- vision as the urgent danger requires . Talk not of your ten ...
... action is spent by us in preparing ; and the issues of war will not wait for our slow and irresolute measures . " Consider then your present situation , and make such pro- vision as the urgent danger requires . Talk not of your ten ...
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... action in our nature ; to the passions and to the heart , as well as to the understanding . But , at the bar , conviction is the great object . There , it is not the speaker's business to persuade the judges to what is good or useful ...
... action in our nature ; to the passions and to the heart , as well as to the understanding . But , at the bar , conviction is the great object . There , it is not the speaker's business to persuade the judges to what is good or useful ...
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Стр. 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.
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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.