Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most Eminent Orators of Great Britain for the Last Two Centuries; with Sketches of Their Lives, an Estimate of Their Genius, and Notes, Critical and Explanatory |
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... thought . Detached passages of extraordinary force and beauty may be useful as exercises in elocution ; but , if dwelt upon exclusively as models of style , they are sure to vitiate the taste . It is like taking all one's nutriment from ...
... thought . Detached passages of extraordinary force and beauty may be useful as exercises in elocution ; but , if dwelt upon exclusively as models of style , they are sure to vitiate the taste . It is like taking all one's nutriment from ...
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... thought , and thus enabling the reader to perceive at once the connection and bearing of the several parts . ( 4. ) A large body of explanatory notes , bringing out minuter facts . A few of these , on CHATHAM's early speeches , are from ...
... thought , and thus enabling the reader to perceive at once the connection and bearing of the several parts . ( 4. ) A large body of explanatory notes , bringing out minuter facts . A few of these , on CHATHAM's early speeches , are from ...
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... thought with which a speaker like Burke , amplifies and adorns the discussion , are rejected as un- worthy of the stern severity of the occasion . The eloquence lies wholly in the thought ; and the entire bareness of the expression ...
... thought with which a speaker like Burke , amplifies and adorns the discussion , are rejected as un- worthy of the stern severity of the occasion . The eloquence lies wholly in the thought ; and the entire bareness of the expression ...
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... thought hath affrighted me , and that not only in respect of our dangers from abroad ( which yet I know are great , as they have been often prest and dilated to us ) , but in respect of our disor- ders here at home , which do enforce ...
... thought hath affrighted me , and that not only in respect of our dangers from abroad ( which yet I know are great , as they have been often prest and dilated to us ) , but in respect of our disor- ders here at home , which do enforce ...
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... thought a conception of Spain than begotten here with us . [ Here there was an interruption made by Sir Humphrey May , Chancellor of the Duchy and of the Privy Council , expressing a dislike ; but the House ordered Sir John Eliot to go ...
... thought a conception of Spain than begotten here with us . [ Here there was an interruption made by Sir Humphrey May , Chancellor of the Duchy and of the Privy Council , expressing a dislike ; but the House ordered Sir John Eliot to go ...
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