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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... proper to fet his true fentiments in the fulleft light . I would not have taken so much freedom with any piece that the author published in his life- time , the Letter to the French Academy , that was published fome years before his ...
... proper to fet his true fentiments in the fulleft light . I would not have taken so much freedom with any piece that the author published in his life- time , the Letter to the French Academy , that was published fome years before his ...
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... proper place ; and fo connect them that the first may make way for the fecond ; and the next fupport the former : fo that the dif courfe fhall gradually advance in ftrength and clearness , till the hearers perceive the whole weight and ...
... proper place ; and fo connect them that the first may make way for the fecond ; and the next fupport the former : fo that the dif courfe fhall gradually advance in ftrength and clearness , till the hearers perceive the whole weight and ...
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... proper to express the paf- fions he would excite . IT is by reading the antients that we must form our taste , and learn the art of eloquence in all its extent . but seeing that fome of the antients themselves have their defects , we ...
... proper to express the paf- fions he would excite . IT is by reading the antients that we must form our taste , and learn the art of eloquence in all its extent . but seeing that fome of the antients themselves have their defects , we ...
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... proper than these Dialogues , to guard us against the vitiated taste of falfe wit ; which ferves only for amusement and oftentation . such eloquence as is founded on vanity and felf - love , delights in gaudy ornaments ; and neglects ...
... proper than these Dialogues , to guard us against the vitiated taste of falfe wit ; which ferves only for amusement and oftentation . such eloquence as is founded on vanity and felf - love , delights in gaudy ornaments ; and neglects ...
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... proper to fubjoin to these dialogues the author's letter to the French Academy concerning rhetoric , poetry , and other subjects ; which has met with fo good reception , that it cannot but be acceptable to every polite reader . the ...
... proper to fubjoin to these dialogues the author's letter to the French Academy concerning rhetoric , poetry , and other subjects ; which has met with fo good reception , that it cannot but be acceptable to every polite reader . the ...
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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...