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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... Junius there are two remarka- ble examples of this disingenuous artifice , which were not both attended with the same success . They are apparent in the controversies with Sir William Draper , and with Mr. Horne . In his first letter ...
... Junius there are two remarka- ble examples of this disingenuous artifice , which were not both attended with the same success . They are apparent in the controversies with Sir William Draper , and with Mr. Horne . In his first letter ...
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... Junius ' first letter . William Draper defended him upon questionable grounds . Junius in his reply takes every possible advantage of his adversary's weakness ; but con- scious that after all he was wrong on the contested point , he ...
... Junius ' first letter . William Draper defended him upon questionable grounds . Junius in his reply takes every possible advantage of his adversary's weakness ; but con- scious that after all he was wrong on the contested point , he ...
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... Junius for his proof or his apol- ogy . Junius , well knowing that he had no proof to produce , and deterred either by a false shame or by the same passion , which had first instigated the charge , from making the apology , endeavours ...
... Junius for his proof or his apol- ogy . Junius , well knowing that he had no proof to produce , and deterred either by a false shame or by the same passion , which had first instigated the charge , from making the apology , endeavours ...
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... Junius had endeavoured to crowd into the dispute for the very purpose of drowning the only real issue . Junius rejoined in one of his most highly polished productions ; exhausted all the powers of his mind upon the extrinsic matter ...
... Junius had endeavoured to crowd into the dispute for the very purpose of drowning the only real issue . Junius rejoined in one of his most highly polished productions ; exhausted all the powers of his mind upon the extrinsic matter ...
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... Junius . " It is not the disorder , but the physician ; it is not a casual concurrence of ca- lamitous circumstances , it is the pernicious hand of government , which alone can make a whole people desperate . " But the ordinary means of ...
... Junius . " It is not the disorder , but the physician ; it is not a casual concurrence of ca- lamitous circumstances , it is the pernicious hand of government , which alone can make a whole people desperate . " But the ordinary means of ...
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Page 318 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Page 262 - I show you a mystery : we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump : for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed...
Page 364 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?
Page 130 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore: his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 6 - The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations; not peace to arise out of universal discord fomented from principle in all parts of the empire; not peace to depend on the juridical determination of perplexing questions, or the precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex government. It is simple peace, sought in its natural course and in its ordinary haunts. It is peace sought in the spirit of...
Page 256 - For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope ; And when he happened to break off I...
Page 35 - Demonstration immediately displays its power, and has nothing to hope or fear from the flux of years ; but works tentative and experimental must be estimated by their proportion to the general and collective ability of man, as it is discovered in a long succession of endeavours.
Page 253 - Thee, bold Longinus! all the Nine inspire, And bless their critic with a poet's fire. An ardent judge, who, zealous in his trust, With warmth gives sentence, yet is always just: Whose own example strengthens all his laws: And is himself that great sublime he draws.
Page 333 - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Page 45 - Tis ours, the dignity they give, to grace ; The first in valour, as the first in place...