An Abridgment of Lectures on RhetoricT. Elwood Zell, 1854 - 230 էջ |
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... excel in any one thing whatever . A man is said to have a genius for mathematics as well as a genius for poetry ; a genius for war , for poli- tics , or for any mechanical employment . Genius may be greatly improved by art and study ...
... excel in any one thing whatever . A man is said to have a genius for mathematics as well as a genius for poetry ; a genius for war , for poli- tics , or for any mechanical employment . Genius may be greatly improved by art and study ...
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... excel- lence , which nature appeared willing to deny . No orator had ever a finer field than Demosthenes in his Olynthiacs and Philippics , which are his capi- tal orations ; and undoubtedly to the greatness of the subject , and to that ...
... excel- lence , which nature appeared willing to deny . No orator had ever a finer field than Demosthenes in his Olynthiacs and Philippics , which are his capi- tal orations ; and undoubtedly to the greatness of the subject , and to that ...
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... excel in preaching , it is necessary to have a fixed , an habitual view of its object . This is to per- suade men to become good . Every sermon ought therefore to be a persuasive oration . It is not to dis- cuss some abstruse point ...
... excel in preaching , it is necessary to have a fixed , an habitual view of its object . This is to per- suade men to become good . Every sermon ought therefore to be a persuasive oration . It is not to dis- cuss some abstruse point ...
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... excel in preaching ? What are the two principal characteristics of pulpit elo- quence ? What is onction ? What must be strictly attended to in a sermon ? Illustrate this . When are sermons most striking ? Is there danger of exhausting ...
... excel in preaching ? What are the two principal characteristics of pulpit elo- quence ? What is onction ? What must be strictly attended to in a sermon ? Illustrate this . When are sermons most striking ? Is there danger of exhausting ...
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... excel in any of the higher kinds of oratory , nothing is more necessary than to cultivate habits of the several virtues , and to refine and improve their moral feelings . A true ora- tor must possess generous sentiments , warm feelings ...
... excel in any of the higher kinds of oratory , nothing is more necessary than to cultivate habits of the several virtues , and to refine and improve their moral feelings . A true ora- tor must possess generous sentiments , warm feelings ...
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Էջ 111 - We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision...
Էջ 88 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Էջ 74 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hill-side, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Էջ 25 - That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, And shall perform all my pleasure ; Even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built ; And to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
Էջ 151 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support...
Էջ 90 - Earth felt the wound, and Nature, from her seat Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Էջ 25 - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Էջ 110 - Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; but at the same time it is very much straitened and confined in its operations to the number, bulk,...
Էջ 186 - O SING unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
Էջ 115 - A man should endeavour, therefore, to make the sphere of his innocent pleasures as wide as possible, that he may retire into them with safety, and find in them such a satisfaction as a wise man would not blush to take.