The British Cicero: Or, A Selection of the Most Admired Speeches in the English Language; Arranged Under Three Distinct Heads of Popular, Parliamentary, and Judicial Oratory: with Historical Illustrations: to which is Prefixed, an Introduction to the Study and Practice of Eloquence, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808 - Oratory |
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Page 37
... question of CAS- SIUS therefore , Whose interest was it ? be applied to the present case . For though no consideration can prevail upon a good man to be guilty of a base action , yet to a bad man the least prospect of advantage will ...
... question of CAS- SIUS therefore , Whose interest was it ? be applied to the present case . For though no consideration can prevail upon a good man to be guilty of a base action , yet to a bad man the least prospect of advantage will ...
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... question ; the nature of the Evi- dence ; Presumptions for or against the fact ; Common Re- port ; and a few other matters of the like kind , which more properly belong to jurisprudence than to eloquence . SECT . SECT . II . OF ...
... question ; the nature of the Evi- dence ; Presumptions for or against the fact ; Common Re- port ; and a few other matters of the like kind , which more properly belong to jurisprudence than to eloquence . SECT . SECT . II . OF ...
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... question briefly , but clearly ; that he then brought his proofs , af- terwards his arguments ; and that he concluded with a Peroration , in which he recapitulated the whole succinct- ly , enforced the strong parts , and artfully ...
... question briefly , but clearly ; that he then brought his proofs , af- terwards his arguments ; and that he concluded with a Peroration , in which he recapitulated the whole succinct- ly , enforced the strong parts , and artfully ...
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... question of right - to settle or controvert a point of law . Perspicuity and force , fair reasoning and demonstrative evidence , would seem here to be the only essential requisites . But however plausible those distinctions may appear ...
... question of right - to settle or controvert a point of law . Perspicuity and force , fair reasoning and demonstrative evidence , would seem here to be the only essential requisites . But however plausible those distinctions may appear ...
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... questions that will be asked . " By suppression , when we leave out the conjunctive particles to shew our earnestness , or the rapidity of our career , as , men , women , children , all were indiscriminately put to the sword . By ...
... questions that will be asked . " By suppression , when we leave out the conjunctive particles to shew our earnestness , or the rapidity of our career , as , men , women , children , all were indiscriminately put to the sword . By ...
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Page 504 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Page 56 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand ? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight ? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain ? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw.
Page 50 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling Nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Page 113 - But his unbiased opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure; no, nor from the law and the Constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Page 47 - Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
Page 76 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Page 136 - He has visited all 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...
Page 136 - ... 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, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 76 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must, in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Page 17 - The secretary stood alone. Modern degeneracy had not reached him. Original and unaccommodating, the features of his character had the hardihood of antiquity. His august mind overawed majesty, and one of his sovereigns thought royalty so impaired in his presence that he conspired to remove him, in order to be relieved from his superiority.