The American Orator: Comprising a Collection, Principally from American Authors, of the Most Admired Specimens of Congressional, Forensic, Pulpit and Popular Eloquence, with Dialogues and Poetical Extracts, Adapted to Public Recitation : and an Introduction, Embracing the Principle Rules Relating to Delivery and ActionPublished and sold by Daniel Fenton, Thomas T. Stiles, printer, 1815 - 324 páginas |
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... tion , are regarded as the very highest reach of eloquence . Ridiculous , however , as these habits are , in the view of refined taste , they have urged a strong , though a mistaken claim , to the sanction of antiquity . It is supposed ...
... tion , are regarded as the very highest reach of eloquence . Ridiculous , however , as these habits are , in the view of refined taste , they have urged a strong , though a mistaken claim , to the sanction of antiquity . It is supposed ...
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... tion of words are innumerable . Some of the principal of them are , omitting the aspirate h where it ought to be used , and inserting it where there should be none : Confounding and interchanging the v and w ; pronouncing the dipthong ...
... tion of words are innumerable . Some of the principal of them are , omitting the aspirate h where it ought to be used , and inserting it where there should be none : Confounding and interchanging the v and w ; pronouncing the dipthong ...
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... tion ; for in familiar discourse we scarce ever fail to express ourselves emphatically , or place the emphasis improperly . With respect to artificial helps , such as distinguishing words or clauses of sentences by particular characters ...
... tion ; for in familiar discourse we scarce ever fail to express ourselves emphatically , or place the emphasis improperly . With respect to artificial helps , such as distinguishing words or clauses of sentences by particular characters ...
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... tion . This hostile and unjust policy of that country towards us , is not to be wondered at , when we recollect that the United States are already the second commercial nation in the world . The rapid growth of our commer- cial ...
... tion . This hostile and unjust policy of that country towards us , is not to be wondered at , when we recollect that the United States are already the second commercial nation in the world . The rapid growth of our commer- cial ...
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... tion of national faith we cannot repeal it . What effects is the operation of this law producing ? It is demoralizing our citizens : men of commercial habits cannot easily change their course of life ; those who have lived in afflu ...
... tion of national faith we cannot repeal it . What effects is the operation of this law producing ? It is demoralizing our citizens : men of commercial habits cannot easily change their course of life ; those who have lived in afflu ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Aaron Burr affection American arms army believe BENJAMIN RUSH bill blessings blood bosom Britain British Brutus calamity Canada cation cause character charity Christ Christian citizens command commerce constitution corrupted danger death defend Demosthenes distress dreadful duty earth enemy eternal exertions Extract eyes fame feel FISHER AMES force France friends gentlemen give glory Gospel hand happiness hath heart Heaven honour hope human interest invasion invasion of Canada Ireland Jacobins justice libel liberty look Lord mankind maritime rights means measures ment militia mind nation nature never object opinion party passions patriots peace political prayers present principles religion republican revolution ruin sans-culottes scene sentiments sion soul speak speaker spect Speech spirit suffering sword Syph Syphax tears tence thee thing thou tion truth virtue voice Washington whole William Cobbett words
Pasajes populares
Página 303 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Página 316 - Twas but a kindred sound to move, For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour, but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying; If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Página 76 - ... who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material ; and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
Página 177 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Página 322 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Página 313 - When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, Her bow across her shoulder flung, Her buskins gem'd with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known...
Página 316 - The princes applaud with a furious joy: And the King seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy; Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen fired another Troy...
Página 314 - TWAS at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son: Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...