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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... against the vitiated taste of falfe wit ; which ferves only for amusement and oftentation . such eloquence as is founded on vanity and felf - love , delights in gaudy ornaments ; and neglects the genuine graces of a noble fimplicity ...
... against the vitiated taste of falfe wit ; which ferves only for amusement and oftentation . such eloquence as is founded on vanity and felf - love , delights in gaudy ornaments ; and neglects the genuine graces of a noble fimplicity ...
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... against the enterprizes of the Perfian king . Demofthenes fpoke against Philip in a quite different manner . you may read the compa- rison that Dionyfius Halicarnaffius has made of these two orators , and fee there the chief faults he ...
... against the enterprizes of the Perfian king . Demofthenes fpoke against Philip in a quite different manner . you may read the compa- rison that Dionyfius Halicarnaffius has made of these two orators , and fee there the chief faults he ...
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... against this diforder . Socrates arofe , and fhewed his deluded fel- low - citizens that the pleasure , about which they were entirely employed , ought only to be used as the ve- hicle of wisdom , and an incentive to virtue . Plato ...
... against this diforder . Socrates arofe , and fhewed his deluded fel- low - citizens that the pleasure , about which they were entirely employed , ought only to be used as the ve- hicle of wisdom , and an incentive to virtue . Plato ...
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... against the prevailing corruptions of the age , and feverer moral characters than those which come from the pulpit ? yet people are not disturbed at them : nay they are pleased with them and the ingenious preacher gets prefer- ment by ...
... against the prevailing corruptions of the age , and feverer moral characters than those which come from the pulpit ? yet people are not disturbed at them : nay they are pleased with them and the ingenious preacher gets prefer- ment by ...
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... against the authority of his doc- trine and admonitions , by this , he fays , but does not ---- the world will reverse this quite , and confider rather how a clerk lives , than what he fays . they fee the one ; and from it con- clude ...
... against the authority of his doc- trine and admonitions , by this , he fays , but does not ---- the world will reverse this quite , and confider rather how a clerk lives , than what he fays . they fee the one ; and from it con- clude ...
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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...