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... present day there have been three chief methods applied to the study of Rhetoric . The first , the highly philosophic method of Aristotle , who startles us by the plain good sense with which more than two thousand years ago he ...
... present day there have been three chief methods applied to the study of Rhetoric . The first , the highly philosophic method of Aristotle , who startles us by the plain good sense with which more than two thousand years ago he ...
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... assert , the one end or object to which our present professors of the rhetorical art endeavor to direct their studies . Lastly , the instru- ment of proof is the speech itself , when we CHAP . I. ] How Rhetoric may be Studied . 5.
... assert , the one end or object to which our present professors of the rhetorical art endeavor to direct their studies . Lastly , the instru- ment of proof is the speech itself , when we CHAP . I. ] How Rhetoric may be Studied . 5.
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... present effort is to see whether by dint of a modicum of theory and a maximum of practice , we cannot arrive at the very result which the author quoted above hints at as impossible— the acquiring of a clear and sound style less by imita ...
... present effort is to see whether by dint of a modicum of theory and a maximum of practice , we cannot arrive at the very result which the author quoted above hints at as impossible— the acquiring of a clear and sound style less by imita ...
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... present the " essential attributes of that use which is the sole mistress of language . " Show how the principles here implied are illustrated or violated by the following passages and by 5 ( a ) above . ( a ) " Well , they're all there ...
... present the " essential attributes of that use which is the sole mistress of language . " Show how the principles here implied are illustrated or violated by the following passages and by 5 ( a ) above . ( a ) " Well , they're all there ...
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... present use here although not in England ? Compare the opposing views indicated in the following passages : ( a ) " If egotism for a moment is pardonable , no false shame deters me from avowing that , though I have lived away from ...
... present use here although not in England ? Compare the opposing views indicated in the following passages : ( a ) " If egotism for a moment is pardonable , no false shame deters me from avowing that , though I have lived away from ...
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Page 75 - JUST for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat — Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others she lets us devote; They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver, So much was theirs who so little allowed: How all our copper had gone for his service ! Rags — were they purple, his heart had been proud ! We that had loved him so, followed him...
Page 94 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Page 205 - Farewell ! a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes ; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him ; The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And, when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 208 - Death closes all : but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
Page 201 - Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.
Page 70 - Then I saw in my dream, that when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before them, and the name of that town is Vanity ; and at the town there is a fair kept, called Vanity Fair : it is kept all the year long ; it beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is lighter than vanity ; and also because all that is there sold, or that cometh thither, is vanity. As is the saying of the wise,
Page 67 - And the watchman cried, and told the king. And the king said, If he be alone there is tidings in his mouth.
Page 68 - Entreat me not to leave thee or to return from following after thee, for. whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people and thy God my God. Where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 119 - There too was she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia, whose delicate features lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common decay.
Page 117 - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, — the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of Strafford had for a moment awed and melted a victorious party inflamed with just resentment, the hall where Charles had confronted the High Court of Justice with the placid courage which has half redeemed his fame.