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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... antients and the moderns have treated of eloquence , with dif- ferent views , and in different ways ; as Logicians , as Grammarians , and as Cri- tics : but we still wanted an author who fhould handle this delicate subject as a ...
... antients and the moderns have treated of eloquence , with dif- ferent views , and in different ways ; as Logicians , as Grammarians , and as Cri- tics : but we still wanted an author who fhould handle this delicate subject as a ...
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... antients that we must form our taste , and learn the art of eloquence in all its extent . but seeing that fome of the antients themselves have their defects , we must read them with caution and judgment . our learned author distin ...
... antients that we must form our taste , and learn the art of eloquence in all its extent . but seeing that fome of the antients themselves have their defects , we must read them with caution and judgment . our learned author distin ...
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... antients . will you be determined by him ? B. I will be determined by him , if he be in the right : but I never refign my judgment implicitly to any author . A. Remember this rule : it is all that I ask of you . and if you do not let ...
... antients . will you be determined by him ? B. I will be determined by him , if he be in the right : but I never refign my judgment implicitly to any author . A. Remember this rule : it is all that I ask of you . and if you do not let ...
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... antients ; and were used to promote morality and religion . even the diversion of hunting was encoura- ged to train up the youth for war . their strongest pleasures contained always fome folid inftruction . from † 2 SAM . vi . 5 , 14 ...
... antients ; and were used to promote morality and religion . even the diversion of hunting was encoura- ged to train up the youth for war . their strongest pleasures contained always fome folid inftruction . from † 2 SAM . vi . 5 , 14 ...
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... antients give us : but I fhall only touch upon the chief points : for , I fuppofe , you do not expect that I should enter into an endless detail of the precepts of rhetoric . there are but too many useless ones ; which you must have ...
... antients give us : but I fhall only touch upon the chief points : for , I fuppofe , you do not expect that I should enter into an endless detail of the precepts of rhetoric . there are but too many useless ones ; which you must have ...
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affecting againſt almoſt antients atque beauty becauſe beſt Chriſtian CICERO cuſtom declaimers defign DEMOSTHENES deſcribe difcourfe diſcourſe effe eloquence endeavour enim eſt expreffions exprefs faid fame fancy fays fcripture feem fentiments fermons ferve fhall fhew fimple fimplicity firſt folid fome fpeak ftile ftill fubject fublime fuch give greateſt Greeks hearers himſelf hiſtory Homer Horace Ifocrates inſtruction itſelf juſt language leaſt lefs likewiſe Longinus manner mind moſt muſt myſelf natural nihil noble numbers obferve occafion orator ornaments paffages paffions perfons perfuade philofopher Plato pleaſe pleaſure poet poetry praiſe preach preacher quae quam quid quod raiſe reaſon repreſent ſay ſee ſeems ſenſe ſeveral ſhall ſhould ſome ſpeak ſtile ſtill ſtrength ſtudy ſuch taſte thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thoughts true truth underſtand uſe verſes Virgil virtue wiſdom wiſh words καὶ τὴν τὸ τῶν
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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...