The Arts of Writing, Reading, and Speaking: In Letters to a Law StudentHorace Cox, 1867 - 336 pagina's |
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Pagina 2
... appear as a teacher of oratory . But by the requirements of my Profession I am compelled to be " a speaker " -an indifferent one , I know - and therefore I may venture , without incurring the charge of presump- tion , to impart to ...
... appear as a teacher of oratory . But by the requirements of my Profession I am compelled to be " a speaker " -an indifferent one , I know - and therefore I may venture , without incurring the charge of presump- tion , to impart to ...
Pagina 7
... appears not to be known that the arts of writing , reading , and speaking demand equally patient study , and equally good instruction , and are vastly more useful when they are attained . You will be astonished if you attempt to measure ...
... appears not to be known that the arts of writing , reading , and speaking demand equally patient study , and equally good instruction , and are vastly more useful when they are attained . You will be astonished if you attempt to measure ...
Pagina 17
... appear to you very commonplace requirements , and you will probably think that I needed not have taken the trouble to write long letters to you to tell you this . But in fact , like other golden rules , they are more easy to remember ...
... appear to you very commonplace requirements , and you will probably think that I needed not have taken the trouble to write long letters to you to tell you this . But in fact , like other golden rules , they are more easy to remember ...
Pagina 39
... appears to be more obvious to remember , and easy to act upon , than the rule , " Say what you want to say in the fewest words that will express your meaning clearly ; and let those words be the plainest , the most common ( not vulgar ) ...
... appears to be more obvious to remember , and easy to act upon , than the rule , " Say what you want to say in the fewest words that will express your meaning clearly ; and let those words be the plainest , the most common ( not vulgar ) ...
Pagina 43
... appear to have been written by men who had forgotten the process by which they had acquired their own knowledge , and who taught from their own advanced position , instead of taking the student's point of view and starting with him ...
... appear to have been written by men who had forgotten the process by which they had acquired their own knowledge , and who taught from their own advanced position , instead of taking the student's point of view and starting with him ...
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Pagina 311 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause ; and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honour; and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom; and awake your senses that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Pagina 130 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Pagina 127 - Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards, his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear The very stones prate of my whereabout, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.
Pagina 314 - 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!
Pagina 125 - ... 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.
Pagina 122 - To die, to sleep; To sleep perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Pagina 122 - ... tis nobler in the mind, to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune ; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, end them ? To die — to sleep...
Pagina 133 - And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, "As the Lord liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surely die. And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing and because he had no pity.
Pagina 128 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Pagina 317 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle: I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent, That day he overcame the Nervii: Look, in this place ran Cassius...