Rhetoric: A Text-book, Designed for Use in Schools and Colleges, and for Private StudyHarper & brothers, 1869 - 381 Seiten |
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... kind of composition , and of every style described . Once a week , perhaps , the class may present in writing specimens or illustrations of what has been studied . during the week , and the exercises suggested in Part IV . should all be ...
... kind of composition , and of every style described . Once a week , perhaps , the class may present in writing specimens or illustrations of what has been studied . during the week , and the exercises suggested in Part IV . should all be ...
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... kind are hieroglyphics and gestures , of the lat- ter , the real characters above mentioned . The use of hieroglyphics is very old . * * When Periander , being consulted how to pre- serve a tyranny , bade the messenger follow him , and ...
... kind are hieroglyphics and gestures , of the lat- ter , the real characters above mentioned . The use of hieroglyphics is very old . * * When Periander , being consulted how to pre- serve a tyranny , bade the messenger follow him , and ...
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... kind . The first extract is a specimen of excellent composition , though translated from an- other language , in which it was uttered by Him " who spake as never man spake " -the Parable of the Prod- igal Son : " A certain man had two ...
... kind . The first extract is a specimen of excellent composition , though translated from an- other language , in which it was uttered by Him " who spake as never man spake " -the Parable of the Prod- igal Son : " A certain man had two ...
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... kind . EXTRACT FROM AN ADDRESS BY DANIEL WEBSTER TO SOME AGED SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION . “ Venerable men ! You have come down to us from a former generation . Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives that you might behold this ...
... kind . EXTRACT FROM AN ADDRESS BY DANIEL WEBSTER TO SOME AGED SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION . “ Venerable men ! You have come down to us from a former generation . Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives that you might behold this ...
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... kind of writing which was much furthered and precipitated by the enmity and opposition that the propounders of those primitive , but seeming new opinions , had against the school- men , who were generally of the contrary part , and ...
... kind of writing which was much furthered and precipitated by the enmity and opposition that the propounders of those primitive , but seeming new opinions , had against the school- men , who were generally of the contrary part , and ...
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abound Allegory allusions ancient Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon language antith antithesis Arachne beautiful become Bible called CHAPTER character Cicero common comparison composition convey cultivated Daniel Webster Demosthenes described effect Elocution eloquent emotion employed English language essay exercise expression fact feeling figure of speech frequently give Greek guage hearer heaven Hyperbole idea illustrate impression instance Invention Irony kind Latin learned literally living long sentences meaning metaphor metonymy mind modern moral narrative nature never number of words object observe orator oratory original PARONOMASIA passion person Personification perspicuity poem poet Poetry practice present productions proverb Quintilian Ralph Waldo Emerson Rhetoric Rufus Choate says sense Shakspeare signification sometimes soul sound speak speaker specimens style SYNECDOCHES taste tence thee thing thou thought tion tropes truth uttered variety verse voice Webster writing written
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Seite 203 - Are they Hebrews ? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham ? So am I.
Seite 285 - I will bless the Lord at all times : His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in the Lord : The humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. 0 magnify the Lord with me, And let us exalt His name together.
Seite 29 - 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.
Seite 318 - I impeach Warren Hastings of high crimes and misdemeanors. I impeach him in the name of the Commons' House of Parliament, whose trust he has betrayed. I impeach him in the name of the English nation, whose ancient honor he has sullied.
Seite 193 - Deep sleep had fallen on the destined victim, and on all beneath his roof. A healthful old man, to whom sleep was sweet, the first sound slumbers of the night held him in their soft but strong embrace.
Seite 202 - I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an almsman's gown, My...
Seite 290 - Mysterious Night! when our first parent knew Thee from report divine and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame Hesperus with the host of Heaven came And, lo ! creation widened in man's view.
Seite 211 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Seite 158 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell...
Seite 148 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined and unknown.