Dialogues Concerning Eloquence in General: And Particularly that Kind which is Fit for the PulpitR. and A. Foulis, 1760 - 333 páginas |
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... ornaments as ferve only to please the ear , with harmonious founds ; and the imagi- nation , with ideas that are more gay and . fparkling , than just and solid . To move the paffions he would have an orator fet every truth in its proper ...
... ornaments as ferve only to please the ear , with harmonious founds ; and the imagi- nation , with ideas that are more gay and . fparkling , than just and solid . To move the paffions he would have an orator fet every truth in its proper ...
Página xii
... ornaments used in after - ages ; he points out what is ex- cellent , and what is faulty , both in fa- cred and profane authors ; and shews us that the eloquence of the Holy Scripture , in many places , furpaffes that of the Greeks and ...
... ornaments used in after - ages ; he points out what is ex- cellent , and what is faulty , both in fa- cred and profane authors ; and shews us that the eloquence of the Holy Scripture , in many places , furpaffes that of the Greeks and ...
Página xiii
... ornaments ; and neglects the genuine graces of a noble fimplicity . for , the glittering fancy and quaint turns , and forced antithefes , the fmooth periods , and other artificial or- naments of false oratory , make a little genius lose ...
... ornaments ; and neglects the genuine graces of a noble fimplicity . for , the glittering fancy and quaint turns , and forced antithefes , the fmooth periods , and other artificial or- naments of false oratory , make a little genius lose ...
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... ornaments to a fubject in itself fo terrifying ; and amufe his hearers with an idle ftory of Artemefia's forrow ; when he ought to have alarmed them , and given them the most terrible images of death ? B. I perceive then you do not love ...
... ornaments to a fubject in itself fo terrifying ; and amufe his hearers with an idle ftory of Artemefia's forrow ; when he ought to have alarmed them , and given them the most terrible images of death ? B. I perceive then you do not love ...
Página 45
... ornaments of speak- | ing ----- are much degenerated from their original usefulness . they were at firft , no doubt , an admirable inftrument in the hands of wife men , when they were only employed to defcribe goodness , honesty ...
... ornaments of speak- | ing ----- are much degenerated from their original usefulness . they were at firft , no doubt , an admirable inftrument in the hands of wife men , when they were only employed to defcribe goodness , honesty ...
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Página 138 - Behold, the Lord God will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
Página 139 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: that bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Página 137 - For the Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Página 139 - Have ye not known ? have ye not heard ? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in...
Página 140 - She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks : Among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her : All her friends have dealt treacherously with her, They are become her enemies.
Página 141 - The mountains quake at Him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at His presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. Who can stand before His indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of His anger? His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by Him.
Página 137 - He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock...
Página 142 - Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, Which camp in the hedges in the cold day, But when the sun ariseth they flee away, And their place is not known where they are.
Página 141 - Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
Página 26 - Studies of men, nothing may be sooner obtain'd, than this vicious abundance of Phrase, this trick of Metaphors, this volubility of Tongue, which makes so great a noise in the World. But I spend words in vain ; for the evil is now so inveterate, that it is hard to know whom to blame, or where to begin to reform. We all value one another...