The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending a Diversity of Oratorical Specimens, of the Eloquence of Popular Assemblies, of the Bar, of the Pulpit, &c. : Principally Intended for the Use of Schools and Academies : to which are Prefixed a Dissertation on Oratorical Delivery and the Outlines of GestureSidney's Press, for Increase Cooke and Company, 1811 - Всего страниц: 408 |
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... law arguments . Reason- ing , in this sense , is distinct from oratory : both , indeed , aim at bringing over men to their opinions , but by different means . Reasoning , appeals to the understanding alone ; oratory deals with the pas ...
... law arguments . Reason- ing , in this sense , is distinct from oratory : both , indeed , aim at bringing over men to their opinions , but by different means . Reasoning , appeals to the understanding alone ; oratory deals with the pas ...
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... laws of God ; hon- our , as it is graceful and ornamental to human nature . The religious man fears , the man of honour scorns to do an ill action . The latter considers vice as something that is beneath him ; the former as some- thing ...
... laws of God ; hon- our , as it is graceful and ornamental to human nature . The religious man fears , the man of honour scorns to do an ill action . The latter considers vice as something that is beneath him ; the former as some- thing ...
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... law ; his great learning , and respectable station in his own country , rendering him eminently qualified for that office . And now the period of his own conversion drew near . While he was at Visagapatam , in the northern Circars ...
... law ; his great learning , and respectable station in his own country , rendering him eminently qualified for that office . And now the period of his own conversion drew near . While he was at Visagapatam , in the northern Circars ...
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... laws of method . Without it , the best speaker will go astray , his pro- gress will be unguided , and the irregular beauties of his speech will be at the mercy of hazard . How brilliant soever the colours he employs may be , the ...
... laws of method . Without it , the best speaker will go astray , his pro- gress will be unguided , and the irregular beauties of his speech will be at the mercy of hazard . How brilliant soever the colours he employs may be , the ...
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... laws , suits of armour ; instruments ofwar , trophies , and the several symbols of the finer arts . The presence of the goddess , so divinely great , o- verwhelmed me with veneration and rapture . Istood for some time immoveable , as if ...
... laws , suits of armour ; instruments ofwar , trophies , and the several symbols of the finer arts . The presence of the goddess , so divinely great , o- verwhelmed me with veneration and rapture . Istood for some time immoveable , as if ...
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Стр. 353 - The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so ; for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad ; of your safety ; of your prosperity ; of that very liberty which you so highly prize.
Стр. 355 - ... the Atlantic side of the Union, directed by an indissoluble community of interest as one nation. Any other tenure by which the West can hold this essential advantage, whether derived from its own separate strength or from an apostate and unnatural connection with any foreign power, must be intrinsically precarious.
Стр. 356 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Стр. 363 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Стр. 352 - ... the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained...
Стр. 355 - The East, in a like intercourse with the West, already finds, and in the progressive improvement of interior communications by land and water will more and more find, a valuable vent for the commodities which it brings from abroad or manufactures at home.
Стр. 209 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Стр. 287 - And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger ! I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son : make me as one of thy hired servants.
Стр. 118 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Стр. 118 - ... twere the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.