 Our words flow from us in a smooth continued stream, without those strainings of the voice, motions of the body, and majesty of the hand, which are so much celebrated in the orators of Greece and Rome. We can talk of life and death in cold blood, and...  The Spectator - Page 481778Full view - About this book
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 682 pages
...stream, without those strainings of the voice, motions of the body, and majesty of the hand, which are so much celebrated in the orators of Greece and Rome. We can talk of life and death in cold Wood, and keep our temper in a discourse which turns upon every thing that is dear to us. Though our... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 268 pages
...body, and majesty of the hand, which are so much celebrated in the orators of Greece and Rome. We cjui talk of life and death in cold blood, and keep our temper in a discourse which turns upon every thing- that is dear to us. Though our zeal breaks out in the finest... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1828 - 432 pages
...stream, without those strainings of the voice, motions of the body, and majesty of the hand, which are so much celebrated in the orators of Greece and Rome....and death in cold blood, and keep our temper in a discourse which turns upon every thing that is dear to us. Through our zeal breaks out in the finest... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 452 pages
...influence more powerful perhaps, than in any other case. Addison, in describing English oratory, says "We can talk of life and death in cold blood, and keep our temper, in a discourse that turns upon every thing that is dear to us." This censure he extends to the pulpit, the... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...of Greece and Rome. We can talk of life and death in cold blood, and keep our temper in a discourse which turns upon every thing that is dear to us. Though our zeal breaks out in the finest tropes and figures, it is not able to stir a limb about us. It is certain that proper gestures... | |
 | 1830 - 474 pages
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 | Spectator - 1832 - 280 pages
...-without those strainings of the voice, motions of the body, and majesty of the hand, which are so much celebrated in the orators of Greece and Rome....and death in cold blood, and keep our temper in a discourse which turns upon every thing that is dear to us. Though our zeal breaks out in the finest... | |
 | William Russell, William Channing Woodbridge, Fordyce Mitchell Hubbard - Education - 1835 - 760 pages
...stream, without those strainings of the voice, motions of the body, and majesty of the hand which are so much celebrated in the orators of Greece and Rome....and death in cold blood, and keep our temper in a discourse which turns upon everything that is dear to us. Though our zeal breaks out in the finest... | |
 | Education - 1835 - 670 pages
...stream, without those strainings of the voice, motions of the body, and majesty of the hand which are so much celebrated in the orators of Greece and Rome....and death in cold blood, and keep our temper in a discourse which turns upon everything that is dear to us. Though our zeal breaks out in the finest... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
....stream, without those strainings of the voice, motions of the body, and majesty of the hand, which are so much celebrated in the orators of Greece and Rome....and death in cold blood, and keep our temper in a discourse which turns upon every thing that is dear to us. Though our zeal breaks out in the finest... | |
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