The British Cicero: Or, A Selection of the Most Admired Speeches in the English Language; Arranged Under Three Distinct Heads of Popular, Parliamentary, and Judicial Oratory: with Historical Illustrations: to which is Prefixed, an Introduction to the Study and Practice of Eloquence, Band 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808 |
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... reason and refinement , the accomplished orator is as uncommon and extraordinary a character as in the days of PERICLES and DEMOSTHENES , when " resistless Eloquence " Wielded at will the fierce Democracy , " Shook th ' arsenal , and ...
... reason and refinement , the accomplished orator is as uncommon and extraordinary a character as in the days of PERICLES and DEMOSTHENES , when " resistless Eloquence " Wielded at will the fierce Democracy , " Shook th ' arsenal , and ...
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... reason . His virtues and his vices , his reason and his passions , did not blend themselves by a gradation of tints , but formed a shining and sudden contrast - here the darkest , there the most splendid co- lors ; and both rendered ...
... reason . His virtues and his vices , his reason and his passions , did not blend themselves by a gradation of tints , but formed a shining and sudden contrast - here the darkest , there the most splendid co- lors ; and both rendered ...
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... reason and common sense , can you go about to explain it to him ? When he has a competent knowledge of the main ... reasons , a com- petent grammatical knowledge of our own language is the true foundation upon which all literature ...
... reason and common sense , can you go about to explain it to him ? When he has a competent knowledge of the main ... reasons , a com- petent grammatical knowledge of our own language is the true foundation upon which all literature ...
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... reason , and not content with making men cool approvers of our advice , endeavour to set their souls on fire to carry it into execution . " Que dans tous vos discours la passion émue " Aille chercher le cœur , l'échauffe , et le remue ...
... reason , and not content with making men cool approvers of our advice , endeavour to set their souls on fire to carry it into execution . " Que dans tous vos discours la passion émue " Aille chercher le cœur , l'échauffe , et le remue ...
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... reason with himself , and answer questions of his own proposing : — he will throw out expressions which he designs to be understood differently from what they seem to mean : he will pretend to doubt what is most proper to be said , and ...
... reason with himself , and answer questions of his own proposing : — he will throw out expressions which he designs to be understood differently from what they seem to mean : he will pretend to doubt what is most proper to be said , and ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 504 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Seite 56 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand ? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight ? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain ? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw.
Seite 50 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling Nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Seite 113 - But his unbiased opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure; no, nor from the law and the Constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Seite 47 - Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
Seite 76 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Seite 136 - He has visited all Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or...
Seite 136 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt ; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Seite 76 - ... 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.
Seite 17 - The secretary stood alone. Modern degeneracy had not reached him. Original and unaccommodating, the features of his character had the hardihood of antiquity. His august mind overawed majesty, and one of his sovereigns thought royalty so impaired in his presence that he conspired to remove him, in order to be relieved from his superiority.