The Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres: Or, An Introduction to Languages, Poetry, Rhetoric, History, Moral Philosophy, Physics, & C. ...W.J. and J. Richardson, J. Walker, 1803 |
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... Greeks , ibid . THE FIRST PIECE TAKEN FROM THE HIS- TORY OF THE PERSIANS , ibid . CYRUS , 284 I. The Education of Cyrus , ibid . Reflections , 389 II . The first Expeditions and Conquests of Cyrus , 390 Reflections , 398 III . The ...
... Greeks , ibid . THE FIRST PIECE TAKEN FROM THE HIS- TORY OF THE PERSIANS , ibid . CYRUS , 284 I. The Education of Cyrus , ibid . Reflections , 389 II . The first Expeditions and Conquests of Cyrus , 390 Reflections , 398 III . The ...
Pagina 38
... Greeks , who had sworn against his client . To do this the more effectually , he attempts to depreciate the nation itself , as not over - scrupulous in matters of veracity and sincerity . He does not begin abruptly with so harsh a ...
... Greeks , who had sworn against his client . To do this the more effectually , he attempts to depreciate the nation itself , as not over - scrupulous in matters of veracity and sincerity . He does not begin abruptly with so harsh a ...
Pagina 39
... Greeks their due praise . I allow them to be learn- " ed , perfectly skilled in many of the arts ; I do not " refuse them an elegance of style , a penetration of genius , or a facility of speaking . Nay , if there be any other merit ...
... Greeks their due praise . I allow them to be learn- " ed , perfectly skilled in many of the arts ; I do not " refuse them an elegance of style , a penetration of genius , or a facility of speaking . Nay , if there be any other merit ...
Pagina 59
... Greek , to form some idea of De- mosthenes's style , I shall here transcribe several pas- sages from his orations , which indeed will not be suffi- cient to exhibit that great orator in the glorious light he ought to be shewn , nor ...
... Greek , to form some idea of De- mosthenes's style , I shall here transcribe several pas- sages from his orations , which indeed will not be suffi- cient to exhibit that great orator in the glorious light he ought to be shewn , nor ...
Pagina 60
... Greek orator . I partly make use of it in the first extract I here give , which is taken from the first Philippic . EXTRACTS FROM DEMOSTHENES AND ESCHINES . FROM THE FIRST PHILIPPIC. [ ] I shall quote but one place , taken from the third ...
... Greek orator . I partly make use of it in the first extract I here give , which is taken from the first Philippic . EXTRACTS FROM DEMOSTHENES AND ESCHINES . FROM THE FIRST PHILIPPIC. [ ] I shall quote but one place , taken from the third ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 358 - This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, his legs of iron, his feet part of iron 5 and part of clay.
Pagina 191 - That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, And shall perform all my pleasure ; Even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built ; And to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
Pagina 204 - Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O Lord, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.
Pagina 358 - Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors ; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
Pagina 202 - The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation : he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation ; my father's God, and I will exalt him.
Pagina 348 - I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou earnest.
Pagina 219 - For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.
Pagina 165 - And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
Pagina 203 - The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil ; my lust shall be satisfied upon them ; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Pagina 165 - Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery (italics mine), which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God...