Dialogues Concerning Eloquence in General: And Particularly that Kind which is Fit for the PulpitR. and A. Foulis, 1760 - 333 Seiten |
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... several years ago in the Arch- bishop's younger days . but the letter was written in his more advanced age , in answer to one that the Academy fent him by their secretary ; defiring his ad- vice on the feveral fubjects he treats of ...
... several years ago in the Arch- bishop's younger days . but the letter was written in his more advanced age , in answer to one that the Academy fent him by their secretary ; defiring his ad- vice on the feveral fubjects he treats of ...
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... several ranks and conditions among them ; their different ways of education ; the common preju- dices , and separate interests that prevail in the prefent age ; and the most proper way to instruct and reform the people . you fee , Sir ...
... several ranks and conditions among them ; their different ways of education ; the common preju- dices , and separate interests that prevail in the prefent age ; and the most proper way to instruct and reform the people . you fee , Sir ...
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... several occafions , that fome orators , tho ' they have good natural parts , want a fund of folid knowledge . their heads seem un- furnished : and one cannot but perceive they labour hard for matter to fill up their difcourfes . they do ...
... several occafions , that fome orators , tho ' they have good natural parts , want a fund of folid knowledge . their heads seem un- furnished : and one cannot but perceive they labour hard for matter to fill up their difcourfes . they do ...
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... several words to find out the thread of his discourse . fuch repetitions make one look like a careless school - boy that has forgot his lef- fon . they are very disagreeable ; and would not be ea- fily excused in a preacher of less note ...
... several words to find out the thread of his discourse . fuch repetitions make one look like a careless school - boy that has forgot his lef- fon . they are very disagreeable ; and would not be ea- fily excused in a preacher of less note ...
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... several reasons to believe that they did not get them by heart , word for word . even the ora- tions of Demofthenes , as we have them , fhew rather the fublimity and vehemence of a great genius that was accustomed to speak powerfully of ...
... several reasons to believe that they did not get them by heart , word for word . even the ora- tions of Demofthenes , as we have them , fhew rather the fublimity and vehemence of a great genius that was accustomed to speak powerfully of ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 138 - Behold, the Lord God will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
Seite 139 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: that bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Seite 137 - For the Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Seite 139 - Have ye not known ? have ye not heard ? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in...
Seite 140 - She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks : Among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her : All her friends have dealt treacherously with her, They are become her enemies.
Seite 141 - The mountains quake at Him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at His presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. Who can stand before His indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of His anger? His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by Him.
Seite 137 - He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock...
Seite 142 - Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, Which camp in the hedges in the cold day, But when the sun ariseth they flee away, And their place is not known where they are.
Seite 141 - Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
Seite 26 - Studies of men, nothing may be sooner obtain'd, than this vicious abundance of Phrase, this trick of Metaphors, this volubility of Tongue, which makes so great a noise in the World. But I spend words in vain ; for the evil is now so inveterate, that it is hard to know whom to blame, or where to begin to reform. We all value one another...