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... signifying the principal excellency in an orator , came at length to denote oratory itself . And as vehemence and eloquence became synonymous , the latter , suitably to this way of thinking , was sometimes defined the art of persuasion ...
... signifying the principal excellency in an orator , came at length to denote oratory itself . And as vehemence and eloquence became synonymous , the latter , suitably to this way of thinking , was sometimes defined the art of persuasion ...
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... signified . That the lofty and the vehement , though still distinguishable , are sometimes combined , and act with united force , is not to be denied . It is then only that the orator can be said to fight with weapons , which are at ...
... signified . That the lofty and the vehement , though still distinguishable , are sometimes combined , and act with united force , is not to be denied . It is then only that the orator can be said to fight with weapons , which are at ...
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... signified , but in the signs , of all relations , no doubt , the slightest . Iden- tity here gives rise to puns and clinches : Resemblance to quibbles , cranks , and rhymes : Of these , I imagine , it is quite unnecessary to exhibit ...
... signified , but in the signs , of all relations , no doubt , the slightest . Iden- tity here gives rise to puns and clinches : Resemblance to quibbles , cranks , and rhymes : Of these , I imagine , it is quite unnecessary to exhibit ...
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... signified above , contempt . But it ought carefully to be noted , that every address , even every pertinent address to contempt , is not humorous . This passion is not less ca- pable of being excited , by the severe and tragic , than by ...
... signified above , contempt . But it ought carefully to be noted , that every address , even every pertinent address to contempt , is not humorous . This passion is not less ca- pable of being excited , by the severe and tragic , than by ...
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... signified to another by language . For , as in man , each of these con- stituent parts hath its distinctive attributes , and as the per- fection of the latter consisteth in its fitness for serving the purposes of the former , so it is ...
... signified to another by language . For , as in man , each of these con- stituent parts hath its distinctive attributes , and as the per- fection of the latter consisteth in its fitness for serving the purposes of the former , so it is ...
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Page 362 - I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib : but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Page 386 - Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne; View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer...
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Page 333 - 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 th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 257 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Page 420 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
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Page 327 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : 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 th...
Page 357 - Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock : and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house ; and it fell not : for it was founded upon a rock.
Page 298 - Some say, he bid his angels turn askance The poles of earth, twice ten degrees and more, From the sun's axle ; they with labour push'd Oblique the centric globe.