Lectures on rhetoric &cT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1820 |
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... the hearer , be consulted ; whether utility or pleasure be the principal aim in view , we are prompted , by the strongest motives , to study how we may com- municate our thoughts to one another with most advantage . VOL . I. B.
... the hearer , be consulted ; whether utility or pleasure be the principal aim in view , we are prompted , by the strongest motives , to study how we may com- municate our thoughts to one another with most advantage . VOL . I. B.
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Hugh Blair. municate our thoughts to one another with most advantage . Accordingly we find , that in almost every nation , as soon as language had extended itself beyond that scanty communication which was requi- site for the supply of ...
Hugh Blair. municate our thoughts to one another with most advantage . Accordingly we find , that in almost every nation , as soon as language had extended itself beyond that scanty communication which was requi- site for the supply of ...
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... advantages of such studies , and the rank they are entitled to possess in academi- cal education . * I am under no temptation , for this * The Author was the first who read Lectures on this subject in the University of Edinburgh . He ...
... advantages of such studies , and the rank they are entitled to possess in academi- cal education . * I am under no temptation , for this * The Author was the first who read Lectures on this subject in the University of Edinburgh . He ...
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... advantages may be derived by them , from such studies as form the subject of these Lectures . To them rhetoric is not so much a practical art as a speculative science ; and the same instructions which assist others in composing , will ...
... advantages may be derived by them , from such studies as form the subject of these Lectures . To them rhetoric is not so much a practical art as a speculative science ; and the same instructions which assist others in composing , will ...
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... advantage , that they exercise our reason without fatiguing it . They lead to enquiries acute , but not painful ; pro- found , but not dry nor abstruse . They strew flowers in the path of science ; and while they keep the mind bent in ...
... advantage , that they exercise our reason without fatiguing it . They lead to enquiries acute , but not painful ; pro- found , but not dry nor abstruse . They strew flowers in the path of science ; and while they keep the mind bent in ...
Common terms and phrases
Addison admiration advantage agreeable ancient appears Aristotle arrangement attention beautiful called character Cicero circumstances colours composition considered Criticism Dean Swift declension degree Demosthenes Dionysius of Halicarnassus discourse distinct distinguished effect elegant Eloquence employed English English Language expression fancy Figures Figures of Speech French frequent genius give grace Greek guage harmony Hence ideas imagination imitation instance Isocrates kind Language Latin Lecture Lord Bolingbroke Lord Shaftesbury Lysias manner means ment Metaphor mind musical nations nature never objects observe occasion Orator ornament particular passion period Perspicuity pleasure poet poetry precise principles pronouns proper propriety prose qualities Quinctilian reason relation remarkable render resemblance rise Roman rule sense sensible sentence sentiments shew signify Simplicity Sir William Temple sort sound speak Speech strength Style Sublime substantive nouns Taste tence thing thought Tongue Tropes variety verbs whole words writing
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Էջ 330 - How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning ! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations...
Էջ 330 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God ; I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north : I will ascend above the heights of the clouds ; I will be like the Most High.
Էջ 411 - A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in 'a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession.
Էջ 331 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, " and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made " the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms ; " That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed " the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his
Էջ 57 - Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, and bade the father of his country 'hail! for lo! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, and Rome again is free!
Էջ 64 - He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under His feet. And He rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, He did fly upon the wings of the wind.
Էջ 330 - He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, He that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
Էջ 420 - I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of a whole view, considered as one entire piece. Such are the prospects of an open champaign country, a vast uncultivated desert, of huge heaps of mountains, high rocks and precipices, or a wide expanse of waters, where we are not struck with the novelty or beauty of the sight, but with that rude kind of magnificence which appears in many of these stupendous works of Nature.
Էջ 208 - By greatness, I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of a whole view, considered as one entire piece.
Էջ 281 - But yonder comes the powerful King of Day, Rejoicing in the east. The lessening cloud, The kindling azure, and the mountain's brow Illumed with fluid gold, his near approach Betoken glad.