 | Philip Doddridge - 1804
...venture, Orontes, to add, without hazarding the imputation of an affected singularity, that I think un mun had ever less pretensions to genuine oratory, than...one should imagine, it would be more likely to break out, than in celebrating departed merit ; yet the two sermons which he preached upon the death of Mr.... | |
 | Jean Siffrein Maury - 1807 - 275 Seiten
...writer of our own country refuses to Tillotson the character of an illustrious Orator, and thinks that no man had ever less pretensions to genuine Oratory than this celebrated preacher. ' One cannot but regret,' ' says he, ' that Dr. Tillotson, who abounds with such noble ' and generous... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1816
...Melmoth, in " Fitzosborne's Letters," cannot allow this to him, but, on the contrary, " thinks that no man had ever less pretensions to genuine oratory, than this celebrated preacher. One cannot indeed but regret," says he, "that Dr. Tillotson, who abounds with such noble and generous... | |
 | William Melmoth - 1815 - 275 Seiten
...notion of rhetorical numbers : and may I venture, Orontes, to add, without hazarding the imputation of an affected singularity, that 1 think no man had...one should imagine, it would be more likely to break out, than in celebrating departed merit ; yet the two sermons which he preached upon the death of Mr.... | |
 | 1816
...Melmoth, in " Fitzosborne's Letters," cannot allow this to him, but, on the contrary, " thinks that no man had ever less pretensions to genuine oratory, than this celebrated preacher. One cannot indeed but regret," says he, "that Dr. Tillotson, who abounds with such noble and generous... | |
 | 1816
...Melmoth, in " Fitzosborne's Letters," cannot allow this to him; but, on the contrary, " thinks that no man had ever less pretensions to genuine oratory, than this celebrated preacher. One cannot indeed but regret," says he, "that Dr. Tillotson, who abounds with such noble and generous... | |
 | David Irving - 1821 - 318 Seiten
....seerns to have no kind of rhetorical numh«s^ and no man had ever less pretension to genuine ofatory, than this celebrated preacher. If any thing could...eloquence in the breast of an orator, there is no occasion on which it would be more ..- E 2 ... likely likely to break out, than in celebrating departed merit... | |
 | 1821
...may I venture, Orontes, to add, without hazarding the imputation of an affected singularity, that I think no man had ever less pretensions to genuine...this celebrated preacher ? If any thing could raise aflame of eloquence in the breast of an orator, there is no occasion upon which, one should imagine,... | |
 | David Irving - 1836 - 407 Seiten
...ease of stile and soli, dity of argument." (Essay on the Power and Harmony of Prosaic Numbers, p. 48.) thing could raise a flame of eloquence in the breast of an orator, there is no occasion on which it would be more likely to break out, than in celebrating departed merit: yet the two sermons... | |
 | David Irving - 1841 - 410 Seiten
...rhetorical numbers; and no man had ever less pretension to genuine oratory, than this celebrated preacher.f If any thing could raise a flame of eloquence in the breast of an orator, there is no occasion on which it would be more likely to break out, than in celebrat* Gedjles's Essay on the Composition... | |
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Orontes, to add, without hazarding the imputation of an affected singularity, that 1 think no man had ever less pretensions to genuine oratory, than this celebrated preacher? If any thing could raise a flame of eloquence in the breast of an orator, there... 