Principles of Rhetoric ...Harper & Bros., 1878 |
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analogy Antecedent Probability Anthony Trollope argument from Antecedent arguments from Sign authority burden of proof called cause chap circumstances clauses Cloth colon comma common composition conclusion connected dash dependent clause E. A. Freeman effect English Essay evidence example expression fact favor feelings force George Eliot give Half Calf hand History Illustrations inference instance J. H. Newman JOHN S. C. ABBOTT jury language lect letter Logic Macaulay matters Matthew Arnold means ment metaphor Middlemarch mind natural never noun object Oliver Goldsmith opinion Orator Paradise Lost paragraph person phrase political premise presumption principle proposition prose prove punctuation purpose question Quintilian quotation reader reason Rhetoric rule scene sect semicolon sense sentence Shakspere Sheep simile sion sometimes speak speaker speech style tence term testimony thing THOMAS CARLYLE thought tion truth verb Whately whole words writer
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Seite 241 - I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts; I am no orator, as Brutus is; But as you know me all, a plain blunt man. That love my friend: and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him. For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood...
Seite 120 - Therefore, whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock ; and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell not ; for it was founded upon a rock.
Seite 130 - The question with me is not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Seite 258 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand, and my heart, to this vote.
Seite 179 - Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again!
Seite 209 - Treason, treason!" echoed from every part of the house. Henry faltered not for an instant, but, taking a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of fire, he added " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...
Seite 89 - Armour rusting in his halls On the blood of Clifford calls ;— 'Quell the Scot,' exclaims the lance — Bear me to the heart of France, Is the longing of the shield — Tell thy name, thou trembling field ; Field of death, where'er thou be, Groan thou with our victory ! Happy day, and mighty hour, When our shepherd in his power, Mailed and horsed, with lance and sword, To his ancestors restored Like a re-appearing star, Like...
Seite 86 - If then God so clothe the grass, which is to-day in the field, and to-morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith!
Seite 132 - If the flights of Dryden therefore, are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight.
Seite 150 - As autumn's dark storms pour from two echoing hills, so towards each other approached the heroes. As two dark streams from high rocks meet and mix, and roar on the plain : loud, rough, and dark in battle meet Lochlin and Inisfail. ... As the troubled noise of the ocean when roll the waves on high ; as the last peal of the thunder of heaven ; such is noise of the battle.