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... ELOQUENCE . This , beyond question , calls for talent of the highest order , for , though it be true that the like elements of success , and 1 power of persuasion , that prevail in the senate and 18 THE ORATOR'S GUIDE . Senatorial oratory.
... ELOQUENCE . This , beyond question , calls for talent of the highest order , for , though it be true that the like elements of success , and 1 power of persuasion , that prevail in the senate and 18 THE ORATOR'S GUIDE . Senatorial oratory.
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... ease and serenity within us , and coun- tervails all the afflictions that can befall us . C In peril or war , true love is the vein COMPOSITION . 27 Variety in forms of expression Transposition, by altering the order and arrangement.
... ease and serenity within us , and coun- tervails all the afflictions that can befall us . C In peril or war , true love is the vein COMPOSITION . 27 Variety in forms of expression Transposition, by altering the order and arrangement.
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... true sublime . : - God said , " Let there be light , and there was light . " The false . The sovereign Arbiter of nature , by the potent energy of a word , commanded the light to spring forth , & c . The sublimity here wholly centres in ...
... true sublime . : - God said , " Let there be light , and there was light . " The false . The sovereign Arbiter of nature , by the potent energy of a word , commanded the light to spring forth , & c . The sublimity here wholly centres in ...
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... true , the occasion may arise for the concealment of Thought ; but this , perhaps , is the hardest task even to the finished Orator . The forced and artificial effort is painful , for it is false . Any strong passion or emotion working ...
... true , the occasion may arise for the concealment of Thought ; but this , perhaps , is the hardest task even to the finished Orator . The forced and artificial effort is painful , for it is false . Any strong passion or emotion working ...
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... true sublime , and are more especially adapted to enliven pathetic , and ennoble descriptive compositions . We recognize this grandeur in these lines of Dr. Young : - Eternity's vast Ocean lies before thee ; Give thy mind Sea - room ...
... true sublime , and are more especially adapted to enliven pathetic , and ennoble descriptive compositions . We recognize this grandeur in these lines of Dr. Young : - Eternity's vast Ocean lies before thee ; Give thy mind Sea - room ...
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The Orator's Guide, Or the Practice and Power of Eloquence John Antrobus (Essayist ) No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 101 - When He made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder, then did He see it, and declare it : He prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
Page 123 - So may the outward shows be least themselves : The world is still deceiv'd with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But being season'd with a gracious voice Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text...
Page 53 - Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar, Wait the great teacher, Death ; and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast : Man never Is, but always to be blest ; The soul, uneasy, and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Page 90 - I will be as the dew unto Israel : he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. They that dwell under his shadow shall return ; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine : the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
Page 124 - For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast ; keep, then, the path ; For Emulation hath a thousand sons That one by one pursue ; if you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost.
Page 48 - Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite ; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age ;* Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before ; Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er!
Page 78 - And, besides this, giving all diligence, add to your faith, virtue ; and to virtue, knowledge ; And to knowledge, temperance ; and to temperance, patience ; and to patience, godliness ; And to godliness, brotherly kindness ; and to brotherly kindness, charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 110 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
Page 52 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is...
Page 114 - Euphrosyne, And by men heart-easing Mirth; Whom lovely Venus, at a birth, With two sister Graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...