The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending a Diversity of Oratorical Specimens, of the Eloquence of Popular Assemblies, of the Bar, of the Pulpit, &c. : Principally Intended for the Use of Schools and Academies : to which are Prefixed a Dissertation on Oratorical Delivery and the Outlines of GestureSidney's Press, for Increase Cooke and Company, 1811 - 408 sider |
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Side 86
... equal to him in abilities , and superior to him in experience ; I mean that experience that can be of the greatest ser- vice to a speaker in Britain . The style of Cicero is clear , diffuse , and pathetic ; that of Quintilian strong ...
... equal to him in abilities , and superior to him in experience ; I mean that experience that can be of the greatest ser- vice to a speaker in Britain . The style of Cicero is clear , diffuse , and pathetic ; that of Quintilian strong ...
Side 148
... equal and measured interval of time , he worked himself up to his usual gesture , and his one kind of movement ; you could compare him only to the blindfolded Babylonian oxen going forward and returning back by the same path . ' The ...
... equal and measured interval of time , he worked himself up to his usual gesture , and his one kind of movement ; you could compare him only to the blindfolded Babylonian oxen going forward and returning back by the same path . ' The ...
Side 185
... equal mischief . Honour is both a motive and an end . As " a principle of action , " it differs from Virtue only in degree , and therefore necessari- ly includes it , as Generosity includes Justice ; and as a reward , " it can be ...
... equal mischief . Honour is both a motive and an end . As " a principle of action , " it differs from Virtue only in degree , and therefore necessari- ly includes it , as Generosity includes Justice ; and as a reward , " it can be ...
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... equal to the sanctity , the dignity , and the solemnity of the occasion . Next to these follow the books of Ezra and Nehe- miah , which contain the history of the Jews for a con- siderable period of time after their return from a cap ...
... equal to the sanctity , the dignity , and the solemnity of the occasion . Next to these follow the books of Ezra and Nehe- miah , which contain the history of the Jews for a con- siderable period of time after their return from a cap ...
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... equal purity and fervour . This affection was the spring of all his efforts to promote her welfare .. The glory of being a benefactor to a great people he could not despise , but justly valued . He was covet- ous of the fame purchased ...
... equal purity and fervour . This affection was the spring of all his efforts to promote her welfare .. The glory of being a benefactor to a great people he could not despise , but justly valued . He was covet- ous of the fame purchased ...
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Aaron Burr Abdallah action admiration affection antith beauty black crows body Cabul Caius Verres called Carazan character Christian Cicero countenance darkness death delight delivered Demosthenes dignity discourse divine earth elevated eloquence eternal Euboea expression eyes father fear feel fingers united force friends genius gesture give glory grace hand happiness head heart heaven honour hope human imagination impressive inflexion judge labour language liberty living look Lord Lord Chatham mankind manner ment mind moral nation nature ness never night raven objects occasion orator oratory pain passion pause perfect person pleasure principle public speaking Quintilian racter reading reason religion render rise Roman senate Sabat scene SECTION sense sentence sentiments soft soul speaker spirit sublime suffer talents taste thee thing thou thought tion tone truth unto variety vice virtue voice whitsuntide whole words
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Side 353 - The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so ; for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad ; of your safety ; of your prosperity ; of that very liberty which you so highly prize.
Side 355 - ... the Atlantic side of the Union, directed by an indissoluble community of interest as one nation. Any other tenure by which the West can hold this essential advantage, whether derived from its own separate strength or from an apostate and unnatural connection with any foreign power, must be intrinsically precarious.
Side 356 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Side 363 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Side 352 - ... the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained...
Side 355 - The East, in a like intercourse with the West, already finds, and in the progressive improvement of interior communications by land and water will more and more find, a valuable vent for the commodities which it brings from abroad or manufactures at home.
Side 209 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Side 287 - And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger ! I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son : make me as one of thy hired servants.
Side 118 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Side 118 - ... twere the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.