The American Orator: Comprising a Collection, Principally from American Authors, of the Most Admired Specimens of Congressional, Forensic, Pulpit and Popular Eloquence, with Dialogues and Poetical Extracts, Adapted to Public Recitation : and an Introduction, Embracing the Principle Rules Relating to Delivery and ActionPublished and sold by Daniel Fenton, Thomas T. Stiles, printer, 1815 - 324 strán (strany) |
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Strana 4
... to receive the dogmas of Demosthenes as oracular , while common and constant experience contradict him . But Demosthenes is not correctly understood . The term action was used by the ancient Rhetoricians in a sense 4 INTRODUCTION .
... to receive the dogmas of Demosthenes as oracular , while common and constant experience contradict him . But Demosthenes is not correctly understood . The term action was used by the ancient Rhetoricians in a sense 4 INTRODUCTION .
Strana 10
... common faults respecting emphasis are laying so strong an emphasis on one word as to leave no power of giving a particular force to other words , which , though not equally , are in a certain degree emphatical ; and placing the greatest ...
... common faults respecting emphasis are laying so strong an emphasis on one word as to leave no power of giving a particular force to other words , which , though not equally , are in a certain degree emphatical ; and placing the greatest ...
Strana 25
... common defence and general welfare ; and whosoever will embark it in a war of offence , will put it to a test which it is by no means calculated to endure . Make it out that Great Britain has instigated the Indians on a late occasion ...
... common defence and general welfare ; and whosoever will embark it in a war of offence , will put it to a test which it is by no means calculated to endure . Make it out that Great Britain has instigated the Indians on a late occasion ...
Strana 28
... common with whom we can claim Shakespeare and Newton , and Chatham for our countrymen whose form of government is the freest on earth , our own only excepted ; from whom every valua- ble principle of our own institutions has been ...
... common with whom we can claim Shakespeare and Newton , and Chatham for our countrymen whose form of government is the freest on earth , our own only excepted ; from whom every valua- ble principle of our own institutions has been ...
Strana 29
... common with that illustrious man ! of a Tillot- son , a Sherlock , and a Proteus , upon my religion . This is a British influence which I can never shake off . I allow much to the just and honest prejudices growing out of the revolution ...
... common with that illustrious man ! of a Tillot- son , a Sherlock , and a Proteus , upon my religion . This is a British influence which I can never shake off . I allow much to the just and honest prejudices growing out of the revolution ...
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Strana 303 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Strana 316 - Twas but a kindred sound to move, For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour, but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying; If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Strana 76 - ... who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material ; and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
Strana 177 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Strana 322 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Strana 313 - When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, Her bow across her shoulder flung, Her buskins gem'd with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known...
Strana 316 - The princes applaud with a furious joy: And the King seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy; Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen fired another Troy...
Strana 314 - TWAS at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son: Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...