The Art of Oratorical Composition: Based Upon the Precepts and Models of the Old MastersSchwartz, Kirwin & Fauss, 1885 - 307 páginas |
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... chiefly with respect to persuasion is the power of passion felt . Almost every man in passion is eloquent . Then he is at no loss for words and arguments . He transmits to others , by a sort of contagious sympathy , the warm sentiments ...
... chiefly with respect to persuasion is the power of passion felt . Almost every man in passion is eloquent . Then he is at no loss for words and arguments . He transmits to others , by a sort of contagious sympathy , the warm sentiments ...
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... chiefly by examples . " Without these , precepts would be almost powerless ; and universal practice has sanctioned the reading of Demosthenes ' and Cicero's ora- tions in colleges as one of the most direct preparations for an oratorical ...
... chiefly by examples . " Without these , precepts would be almost powerless ; and universal practice has sanctioned the reading of Demosthenes ' and Cicero's ora- tions in colleges as one of the most direct preparations for an oratorical ...
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... the value of a work so admirable in many other respects , and we are not sur- prised to hear Macaulay designate Blair as a superficial critic , which epithet applies to him chiefly on account 36 PAGE II -ON THE INVENTION OF THOUGHT.
... the value of a work so admirable in many other respects , and we are not sur- prised to hear Macaulay designate Blair as a superficial critic , which epithet applies to him chiefly on account 36 PAGE II -ON THE INVENTION OF THOUGHT.
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... chiefly on account of this very omission . 40. We shall divide this book on Invention into the following chapters : 1. A General View of the Intend- ed Speech ; 2. Sources of Thought ; 3. Intrinsic Topics ; 4. Extrinsic Topics ; 5 ...
... chiefly on account of this very omission . 40. We shall divide this book on Invention into the following chapters : 1. A General View of the Intend- ed Speech ; 2. Sources of Thought ; 3. Intrinsic Topics ; 4. Extrinsic Topics ; 5 ...
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... Catholic believes . 43. 3. What is the end intended in the speech , or what does the speaker hope to accomplish ? For instance , does he aim chiefly at convincing the minds of his hearers 38 A General View of the Intended Speech,
... Catholic believes . 43. 3. What is the end intended in the speech , or what does the speaker hope to accomplish ? For instance , does he aim chiefly at convincing the minds of his hearers 38 A General View of the Intended Speech,
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Página 300 - And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.
Página 178 - 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...
Página 18 - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence ; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.
Página 189 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore: his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Página 200 - Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation ? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.
Página 185 - 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...
Página 211 - Were with his heart, and that was far away. He recked not of the life he lost, nor prize; But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother, — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday!
Página 212 - Alas! my noble boy, that thou shouldst die! Thou, who wert made so beautifully fair! That death should settle in thy glorious eye, And leave his stillness in this clustering hair! How could he mark thee for the silent tomb. My proud boy, Absalom ! B Cold is thy brow, my son ; and I am chill.
Página 17 - True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion.
Página 271 - If ye were blind, ye should have no sin : but now ye say, We see ; therefore your sin remaineth. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.