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... human nature to work with as well as to work upon . The instinct of speech he improved into elo- quence by experiments upon men as hearers of speech . Then , when the reflective process began in his mind , and he reasoned out the first ...
... human nature to work with as well as to work upon . The instinct of speech he improved into elo- quence by experiments upon men as hearers of speech . Then , when the reflective process began in his mind , and he reasoned out the first ...
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... human nature . Demos- thenes , by incorporating into his orations the principles of eloquence derived from the study of men , rendered those orations a source of culture to all subsequent generations . We therefore have a second source ...
... human nature . Demos- thenes , by incorporating into his orations the principles of eloquence derived from the study of men , rendered those orations a source of culture to all subsequent generations . We therefore have a second source ...
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... human nature more adroitly in their own . Preachers often attempt to influence audiences , not only by isolated arguments , illustrations , appeals , but by prolonged plans of ministerial effort , which they know , when they fairly ...
... human nature more adroitly in their own . Preachers often attempt to influence audiences , not only by isolated arguments , illustrations , appeals , but by prolonged plans of ministerial effort , which they know , when they fairly ...
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... human nature which are normal to it . A right appeal to those elements a preacher may make with hope of equal success . The susceptibility of the x human mind to such appeals is the basis of all elo- quence . The business of real life ...
... human nature which are normal to it . A right appeal to those elements a preacher may make with hope of equal success . The susceptibility of the x human mind to such appeals is the basis of all elo- quence . The business of real life ...
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... human nature moved by supernatural forces . They have never been provincial . All the past is dotted over with them : all the future must be the same . Our hope of the world's conversion is a dream , if religious prog- ress is to be ...
... human nature moved by supernatural forces . They have never been provincial . All the past is dotted over with them : all the future must be the same . Our hope of the world's conversion is a dream , if religious prog- ress is to be ...
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Page 241 - Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul, and form, All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being; in them did he live, And by them did he live; they were his life. In such access of mind, in such high hour Of visitation from the living God, Thought was not; in enjoyment it expired.
Page 165 - Nothing at all. What do you learn from a cookerybook? Something new, something that you did not know before, in every paragraph. But would you therefore put the wretched cookerybook on a higher level of estimation than the divine poem? What you owe to Milton is not any knowledge, of which a million separate items are still but a million of advancing steps on the same earthly level; what you owe is power, that is, exercise and expansion to your own latent capacity of sympathy with the infinite, where...
Page 241 - ... minds of the greatest poets in those countries too much to the bondage of definite form; from which the Hebrews were preserved by their abhorrence of idolatry. This abhorrence was almost as strong in our great epic Poet, both from circumstances of his life, and from the constitution of his mind. However imbued the surface might be with classical literature, he was a Hebrew in soul; and all things tended in him towards the sublime.