Lectures on rhetoric &cT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1820 |
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... methods of express- ing their conceptions with propriety and eloquence . Hence we find , that , in all the polished nations of Europe , this study has been treated as highly import- ant , and has possessed a considerable place in every ...
... methods of express- ing their conceptions with propriety and eloquence . Hence we find , that , in all the polished nations of Europe , this study has been treated as highly import- ant , and has possessed a considerable place in every ...
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... method which I follow , will contribute more to make the best authors be read with pleasure , when one properly distin- guishes their beauties from their faults ; and is led to imitate and admire only what is worthy of imitation and ...
... method which I follow , will contribute more to make the best authors be read with pleasure , when one properly distin- guishes their beauties from their faults ; and is led to imitate and admire only what is worthy of imitation and ...
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... method of communicating thought we now behold carried to the highest perfection . Language is become a vehicle by which the most delicate and refined emotions of one mind can be transmitted , or , if we may so speak , transfused into ...
... method of communicating thought we now behold carried to the highest perfection . Language is become a vehicle by which the most delicate and refined emotions of one mind can be transmitted , or , if we may so speak , transfused into ...
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... method of living by hunting or pasturage must have separated them frequently from one another . In this situation , when so much divided , and their intercourse so rare , how could any one set of sounds , or words , be generally agreed ...
... method of living by hunting or pasturage must have separated them frequently from one another . In this situation , when so much divided , and their intercourse so rare , how could any one set of sounds , or words , be generally agreed ...
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... method of communicating to others what they felt , than by the cries of passion , accom- panied with such motions and gestures as were far- ther expressive of passion . For these are the only signs which nature teaches all men , and ...
... method of communicating to others what they felt , than by the cries of passion , accom- panied with such motions and gestures as were far- ther expressive of passion . For these are the only signs which nature teaches all men , and ...
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第 330 頁 - How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning ! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations...
第 330 頁 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God ; I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north : I will ascend above the heights of the clouds ; I will be like the Most High.
第 411 頁 - A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in 'a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession.
第 331 頁 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, " and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made " the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms ; " That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed " the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his
第 57 頁 - Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, and bade the father of his country 'hail! for lo! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, and Rome again is free!
第 64 頁 - He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under His feet. And He rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, He did fly upon the wings of the wind.
第 330 頁 - He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, He that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
第 420 頁 - I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of a whole view, considered as one entire piece. Such are the prospects of an open champaign country, a vast uncultivated desert, of huge heaps of mountains, high rocks and precipices, or a wide expanse of waters, where we are not struck with the novelty or beauty of the sight, but with that rude kind of magnificence which appears in many of these stupendous works of Nature.
第 208 頁 - By greatness, I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of a whole view, considered as one entire piece.
第 281 頁 - But yonder comes the powerful King of Day, Rejoicing in the east. The lessening cloud, The kindling azure, and the mountain's brow Illumed with fluid gold, his near approach Betoken glad.