Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Том 2Thomas Kirk, 1807 |
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... common , the rules concerning the conduct of a discourse in all its parts . Of these rules I purpose afterwards to treat at large . But before proceeding to them , I intend to shew , first , what is peculiar to each of these three kinds ...
... common , the rules concerning the conduct of a discourse in all its parts . Of these rules I purpose afterwards to treat at large . But before proceeding to them , I intend to shew , first , what is peculiar to each of these three kinds ...
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... common people are better judges of argument and good sense , than we sometimes think them ; and upon any question of business , a plain man , who speaks to the point without art , will generally prevail over the most artful speaker ...
... common people are better judges of argument and good sense , than we sometimes think them ; and upon any question of business , a plain man , who speaks to the point without art , will generally prevail over the most artful speaker ...
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... common to recommend a diffuse manner as the most proper . I am inclined , however , to think , that there is danger of erring in this respect ; and that by indulging too much in the diffuse style , public speakers often lose more in ...
... common to recommend a diffuse manner as the most proper . I am inclined , however , to think , that there is danger of erring in this respect ; and that by indulging too much in the diffuse style , public speakers often lose more in ...
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... common sense of the judges . Eloquence , much more than jurisprudence , was the study of those who were to plead causes . Cicero some- where says , that three months study was sufficient to make any man a complete civilian ; nay , it ...
... common sense of the judges . Eloquence , much more than jurisprudence , was the study of those who were to plead causes . Cicero some- where says , that three months study was sufficient to make any man a complete civilian ; nay , it ...
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... common at the Roman bar ; such as introducing not only the accused person dressed in deep mourning , but presenting to the judges his family , and his young children , endeavouring to move them by their cries and tears . For these ...
... common at the Roman bar ; such as introducing not only the accused person dressed in deep mourning , but presenting to the judges his family , and his young children , endeavouring to move them by their cries and tears . For these ...
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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.