Elements of the Art of Rhetoric: Adapted for Use in Colleges and Academies, and for Private StudyA.S. Barnes & Burr, 1866 - 305 pagina's |
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... practice . An art , accordingly , always contemplates the exertion of some power or faculty ; and proposes to point out the means and furnish the occasion of developing and regulating that faculty in the best manner . The art of Music ...
... practice . An art , accordingly , always contemplates the exertion of some power or faculty ; and proposes to point out the means and furnish the occasion of developing and regulating that faculty in the best manner . The art of Music ...
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... practice . They sought this even , as there is some reason to believe , at the sacrifice of good taste . They loved luxuriance and labored in every way to promote it . The moderns , on the other hand , have too much regarded rhetoric as ...
... practice . They sought this even , as there is some reason to believe , at the sacrifice of good taste . They loved luxuriance and labored in every way to promote it . The moderns , on the other hand , have too much regarded rhetoric as ...
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... practice in acquiring an art , be- cause , as regulated step by step by a reference to rules , it is necessarily imperfect and awkward ; and , because , practice merely for practice must be mechanical and spiritless . They would master ...
... practice in acquiring an art , be- cause , as regulated step by step by a reference to rules , it is necessarily imperfect and awkward ; and , because , practice merely for practice must be mechanical and spiritless . They would master ...
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... practice in any art . A man may shout and cry , may strain his voice ever so much and make little progress towards becoming a good musician or a good speaker . The practice must be pursued with a clear , conscious knowledge of what the ...
... practice in any art . A man may shout and cry , may strain his voice ever so much and make little progress towards becoming a good musician or a good speaker . The practice must be pursued with a clear , conscious knowledge of what the ...
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... practice . No illustration is requisite to show the correctness of this principle . It may be remarked here , however , that the labor of writing should not be pursued so constantly as to make it a drudgery , awakening no interest and ...
... practice . No illustration is requisite to show the correctness of this principle . It may be remarked here , however , that the labor of writing should not be pursued so constantly as to make it a drudgery , awakening no interest and ...
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Pagina 148 - And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him ? O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason! — Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause, till it come back to me.
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Pagina 246 - And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one ; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
Pagina 192 - THOUGH for no other cause, yet for this ; that posterity may know we have not loosely through silence permitted things to pass away as in a dream, there shall be for men's information extant thus much concerning the present state of the Church of God established amongst us, and their careful endeavour which would have upheld the same.
Pagina 148 - Tis his will. Let but the commons hear this testament — Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read — And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins...
Pagina 192 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them, for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Pagina 267 - Advance, then, ye future generations! We would hail you, as you rise in your long succession, to fill the places which we now fill, and to taste the blessings of existence, where we are passing, and soon shall have passed, our own human duration. We bid you welcome to this pleasant land of the fathers. We bid you welcome to the healthful skies and the verdant fields of New England. We greet your accession to the great inheritance which we have enjoyed. We welcome you to the blessings of good government,...
Pagina 192 - Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for • ability. Their chief use for delight, is in private- J ness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
Pagina 66 - Blackstone's declaration that law is "a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power of a state commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong.