Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk, Volume 2W. Blackwood, 1819 - Edinburgh (Scotland) |
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Page 55
... of his continual practice , and of his great natural eloquence , the impression of these delightful years should have become too deep ever to be concealed from view ; power and that even in the midst of the most MR CRANSTOUN . 55.
... of his continual practice , and of his great natural eloquence , the impression of these delightful years should have become too deep ever to be concealed from view ; power and that even in the midst of the most MR CRANSTOUN . 55.
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... eloquence is so overpoweringly rapid , so unweariedly energetic , so entirely un- like every other man's mode of speaking , that the pronunciation of the particular words is quite lost to one's view , in the midst of that continual ...
... eloquence is so overpoweringly rapid , so unweariedly energetic , so entirely un- like every other man's mode of speaking , that the pronunciation of the particular words is quite lost to one's view , in the midst of that continual ...
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... eloquence is persuasive . Once so far victorious , he is thence- forth irresistible . He has established an under- standing between himself and his audience , a feeling of fellowship and confidence of commu- nion , which nothing can ...
... eloquence is persuasive . Once so far victorious , he is thence- forth irresistible . He has established an under- standing between himself and his audience , a feeling of fellowship and confidence of commu- nion , which nothing can ...
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... eloquent than words . And yet his words , though they came slowly , and fell heavily , were far better than eloquent . The criminal had been the son of respectable parents - and he was yet young - and he had no hope but in their mercy ...
... eloquent than words . And yet his words , though they came slowly , and fell heavily , were far better than eloquent . The criminal had been the son of respectable parents - and he was yet young - and he had no hope but in their mercy ...
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... eloquence . It is seen and felt in a mo- ment , that he is wandering from his own wide and fertile field of dominion , and every heart which he would invade , repels him with cold- ness . It is not by an artificial piling together of ...
... eloquence . It is seen and felt in a mo- ment , that he is wandering from his own wide and fertile field of dominion , and every heart which he would invade , repels him with cold- ness . It is not by an artificial piling together of ...
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