The Republican Compiler: Comprising a Series of Scientific, Descriptive, Narrative, Popular, Biographical, Epistolary, and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and VerseCramer & Spear, 1818 - 263 Seiten |
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... language indeed is one of the important properties of oratory , and when the art came to be reduced into a system among the ancient Greeks , some of the subordinate writers , un- able to produce any thing of their own upon the gener al ...
... language indeed is one of the important properties of oratory , and when the art came to be reduced into a system among the ancient Greeks , some of the subordinate writers , un- able to produce any thing of their own upon the gener al ...
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... language , bestows very little consideration up- on it , and cautions the orator , perhaps too rigorously , against its use . Cicero , though from the natural turn of his genius more liberal of these seductive graces , allows them only ...
... language , bestows very little consideration up- on it , and cautions the orator , perhaps too rigorously , against its use . Cicero , though from the natural turn of his genius more liberal of these seductive graces , allows them only ...
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... language ; for no one can have a competent knowledge of the copiousness and power of the English tongue , who has not read Spencer , and Shakespear , and Hooker , and Taylor , and the intellectual giants of that wonderful age . It is no ...
... language ; for no one can have a competent knowledge of the copiousness and power of the English tongue , who has not read Spencer , and Shakespear , and Hooker , and Taylor , and the intellectual giants of that wonderful age . It is no ...
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... language . I think it happens very generally , that those who are least concise and accurate are most lengthy and voluminous . I will therefore not spend much time upon invention , leaving it to the spontaneous production of capacity ...
... language . I think it happens very generally , that those who are least concise and accurate are most lengthy and voluminous . I will therefore not spend much time upon invention , leaving it to the spontaneous production of capacity ...
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... language . Simplicity is even as necessary to some parts of an oration , as it is to the whole of some kinds of composition . Let the subject be ever so great and interesting , it is prudent , decent and necessary to begin the discourse ...
... language . Simplicity is even as necessary to some parts of an oration , as it is to the whole of some kinds of composition . Let the subject be ever so great and interesting , it is prudent , decent and necessary to begin the discourse ...
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Seite 134 - If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston ! The war is inevitable — and let it come ! I repeat it, sir, let it come ! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, — but there is no peace.
Seite 104 - Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here.
Seite 134 - Besides, sir, we have no election. " If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery. Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston. The war is inevitable. And let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, but there is no peace.
Seite 134 - They tell us, sir, that we are weak, — unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week — or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed; and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house?
Seite 242 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Seite 242 - Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave ; And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Seite 104 - He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
Seite 2 - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the tenth day of August, AD 1829, in the fifty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, JP Dabney, of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit...
Seite 17 - On the other side up rose Belial, in act more graceful and humane; A fairer person lost not Heaven; he seemed For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels...
Seite 133 - No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains, which the British ministry have been so long forging.