The Principles of Eloquence: Adapted to the Pulpit and the BarD. and G. Bruce, 1807 - 275 Seiten |
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... English dress , appears to have occupied his maturest tho'ts ; and the justice and enlargement of his ideas upon this subject mark the success , with which he has pur- sued it . To boast of his attaining to originality of thought on a ...
... English dress , appears to have occupied his maturest tho'ts ; and the justice and enlargement of his ideas upon this subject mark the success , with which he has pur- sued it . To boast of his attaining to originality of thought on a ...
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... English * . In the work now offered to the public , and which seems the most material for a young speaker to peruse , the Abbé has described those rules , and . suggested those observations , by which he ap- pears to have been guided in ...
... English * . In the work now offered to the public , and which seems the most material for a young speaker to peruse , the Abbé has described those rules , and . suggested those observations , by which he ap- pears to have been guided in ...
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... a view to his personal improvement . Some elucidations from English authors natu- rally occurred to his mind , which he has accor- * Monthly Review , vol . Ivii . p . 309 . dingly annexed . But it was not till afterwards , 10 PREFACE .
... a view to his personal improvement . Some elucidations from English authors natu- rally occurred to his mind , which he has accor- * Monthly Review , vol . Ivii . p . 309 . dingly annexed . But it was not till afterwards , 10 PREFACE .
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... English ; and that in one or two instances , his zeal for the Romish Church embitters his lan- guage with regard to the conduct and writings of some Protestants . Every man hath his partialities . For the pre- judices of education ...
... English ; and that in one or two instances , his zeal for the Romish Church embitters his lan- guage with regard to the conduct and writings of some Protestants . Every man hath his partialities . For the pre- judices of education ...
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... English nation . To the works of eloquent French writers re- commended by M. MAURY , perhaps it will be no discredit to add as a model of Pulpit - Eloquence , the sermons of the late Rev. CHARLES CHAIS , Pastor of the French Church at ...
... English nation . To the works of eloquent French writers re- commended by M. MAURY , perhaps it will be no discredit to add as a model of Pulpit - Eloquence , the sermons of the late Rev. CHARLES CHAIS , Pastor of the French Church at ...
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Abbé Abbé MAURY admiration affected Archbishop of Cambray ardour arguments assembly attention auditory beauty Bishop Bishop of Meaux Bishop of Worcester Bitonto BLAIR BLAIR's Lectures Bossuet BOURDA Bourdaloue Bridaine celebrated character Christian Orator Church Cicero composed composition Demosthenes Dialogues discourse discover distinguished divine doth elegant energy English equal Essays eulogium EUSIBIUS excellent exordium expression Fathers FENELON French funeral Oration genius gives hath hear hearers heart honour ideas imagination impart instruction ject judge labours language Louis XIV manner Massillon Maury memory ment merit metaphors method mind nature never nihil object observes Oratory Panegyric passage passions pathetic perspicuity poet preached preacher pulpit quence Quintilian religion remarks render rhetorical Roman sacred Saurin says scripture SECTION sensible sentence sentiments sermons shew sion speak striking style sublime sufficient talents taste thing thou thought Tillotson tion translation truth words writer zeal
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Seite 241 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat: if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, ' Logan is the friend of white men.
Seite 209 - Words are like leaves ; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
Seite 97 - Europe,— not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts:— but to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected,...
Seite 241 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it: I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance: for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbour a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Seite 117 - Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
Seite 122 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same ; Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear...
Seite 184 - And now, Gentlemen, on this serious day, when I come, as it were, to make up my account with you, let me take to myself some degree of honest pride on the nature of the charges that are against me. I do not here stand before you accused of venality, or of neglect of duty. It is not said that, in the long period of my service, I have, in a single instance, sacrificed the slightest of your interests to my ambition or to my fortune.
Seite 40 - Something, whose Truth convinc'd at Sight we find, That gives us back the Image of our Mind...
Seite 117 - How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come? Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die, "And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
Seite 209 - Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable.