The Columbian Orator: Containing a Variety of Original and Selected Pieces; Together with Rules; Calculated to Improve Youth and Others in the Ornamental and Useful Art of EloquenceWilliam S. Parker, 1821 - Всего страниц: 300 |
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... Cefar as unworthy of his mercy . Cefar himself was prejudiced against Ligarius ; and therefore , when the caufe was to come before him , he faid , " We may venture to hear Cicero difplay his eloquence ; for I know the perfon he pleads ...
... Cefar as unworthy of his mercy . Cefar himself was prejudiced against Ligarius ; and therefore , when the caufe was to come before him , he faid , " We may venture to hear Cicero difplay his eloquence ; for I know the perfon he pleads ...
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... Cefar , when he thought it for his purpose . And oftentimes this paffion is accompanied with an elevation both of the eyes and hands . On the contrary , contempt finks and protracts the voice . All exclamations fhould be violent . When ...
... Cefar , when he thought it for his purpose . And oftentimes this paffion is accompanied with an elevation both of the eyes and hands . On the contrary , contempt finks and protracts the voice . All exclamations fhould be violent . When ...
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... Cefar could conquer a world ; but to overcome the paffions , to fubdue the wills , and to command at pleasure the inclinations of men , can be effected only by the all - powerful charm of enrapturing eloquence . Though it be more than ...
... Cefar could conquer a world ; but to overcome the paffions , to fubdue the wills , and to command at pleasure the inclinations of men , can be effected only by the all - powerful charm of enrapturing eloquence . Though it be more than ...
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... Cefar , ftain'd with blood ; But only great , as I am good . EXTRACT FROM MR . PITT'S SPEECH IN THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT , IN THE YEAR 1766 , on THE SUBJECT OF THE STAMP - ACT . I T is a long time , Mr. Speaker , fince I have attended in ...
... Cefar , ftain'd with blood ; But only great , as I am good . EXTRACT FROM MR . PITT'S SPEECH IN THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT , IN THE YEAR 1766 , on THE SUBJECT OF THE STAMP - ACT . I T is a long time , Mr. Speaker , fince I have attended in ...
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... Cefar , drunk with power , and madly brave , Infatiate burn , his country to enslave ? Did he for this , lead forth a fervile hoft To fpill the choifeft blood that Rome could boaft ? The British Cefar too hath done the fame , And doom'd ...
... Cefar , drunk with power , and madly brave , Infatiate burn , his country to enslave ? Did he for this , lead forth a fervile hoft To fpill the choifeft blood that Rome could boaft ? The British Cefar too hath done the fame , And doom'd ...
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Стр. 261 - France, my lords, has insulted you ; she has encouraged and sustained America; and whether America be wrong or right, the dignity of this country ought to spurn at the officious insult of French interference. The ministers and...
Стр. 149 - Relying on its kindness in this as in other things, and actuated by that fervent love towards it, which is so natural to a man, who views in it the native soil of himself and his progenitors for several generations...
Стр. 149 - THOUGH in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am, nevertheless, too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils, to which they may tend.
Стр. 149 - ... guarantee of the plans by which they were effected. Profoundly penetrated with this idea, I shall carry it with me to my grave as a strong incitement to unceasing vows that Heaven may continue to you the choicest tokens of its beneficence; that your union and...
Стр. 60 - I know the valour of your troops. I know the skill of your officers. There is not a company of foot that has served in America out of which you may not pick a man of sufficient knowledge and experience to make a governor of a colony there.
Стр. 34 - ... day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision...
Стр. 147 - I beg you at the same time to do me the justice to be assured, that this .resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country...
Стр. 263 - ... impotent — doubly so, indeed, from this mercenary aid on which you rely; for it irritates, to an incurable resentment, the minds of your enemies — to overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder, devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty ! If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never!
Стр. 260 - This, my lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment ! It is not a time for adulation. The smoothness of flattery cannot now avail; cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct the throne in the language of truth.
Стр. 96 - Experience might inform them that many, who have been saluted with the huzzas of a crowd one day, have received their execrations the next ; and many, who by the popularity of their times, have been held up as spotless patriots, have, nevertheless, appeared upon the historian's page, when truth has triumphed over delusion, the assassins of liberty.