Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University, Volume 2Hilliard and Metcalf, 1810 - Oratory |
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... modern invention , which came first from the schools , he must have reference only to the particu- lar mode of divisions , usually practised in writing sermons . Both Quinctilian and Cicero however very explicitly give their opinions in ...
... modern invention , which came first from the schools , he must have reference only to the particu- lar mode of divisions , usually practised in writing sermons . Both Quinctilian and Cicero however very explicitly give their opinions in ...
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... modern practice of the bar , might still be employ- ed to great advantage ; it would greatly abridge many a tedious argument , in which learned coun- sel are apt to waste the time of the court and their own , expatiating upon a series ...
... modern practice of the bar , might still be employ- ed to great advantage ; it would greatly abridge many a tedious argument , in which learned coun- sel are apt to waste the time of the court and their own , expatiating upon a series ...
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... modern times . In the first oration of Cicero , which he deemed worthy of preserving for publi cation , there is a very remarkable instance of form- al partition . It was on a mere private , 22 [ LECT . XIX . PROPOSITION.
... modern times . In the first oration of Cicero , which he deemed worthy of preserving for publi cation , there is a very remarkable instance of form- al partition . It was on a mere private , 22 [ LECT . XIX . PROPOSITION.
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... modern , with whose compo- sitions I have been conversant , the highest praise of this particular kind is unquestionably due to Cicero . The palm of superior eloquence has in- deed by many able judges been awarded to De- mosthenes , and ...
... modern , with whose compo- sitions I have been conversant , the highest praise of this particular kind is unquestionably due to Cicero . The palm of superior eloquence has in- deed by many able judges been awarded to De- mosthenes , and ...
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... modern times he , who most resembles Cicero in this , as in many other particulars , is Burke . The general course and character of his argumentation is indeed so closely modelled upon Cicero , that he must in some sort be considered as ...
... modern times he , who most resembles Cicero in this , as in many other particulars , is Burke . The general course and character of his argumentation is indeed so closely modelled upon Cicero , that he must in some sort be considered as ...
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