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 sider |
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Side 4
... honour upon the judgment of any man , to receive the dogmas of Demosthenes as oracular , while common and constant experience contradict him . But Demosthenes is not correctly understood . The term action was used by the ancient ...
... honour upon the judgment of any man , to receive the dogmas of Demosthenes as oracular , while common and constant experience contradict him . But Demosthenes is not correctly understood . The term action was used by the ancient ...
Side 8
... honour of being the standard of accurate pronunciation . We should perhaps look for this standard only among those who unite these two characters , and with the correctness and precision of true learning com- bine the ease and elegance ...
... honour of being the standard of accurate pronunciation . We should perhaps look for this standard only among those who unite these two characters , and with the correctness and precision of true learning com- bine the ease and elegance ...
Side 17
... honour and its fame-- I mean the late commander of the cavalry . You , sir , who have often measured your strength with his , in forensic debate , can attest that he in a good degree , was the pride of the western country , and Kentucky ...
... honour and its fame-- I mean the late commander of the cavalry . You , sir , who have often measured your strength with his , in forensic debate , can attest that he in a good degree , was the pride of the western country , and Kentucky ...
Side 19
... honour ! " can be tied down by the narrow rules of technical routine . The committee of foreign relations have indeed decided that the subject of arming the militia ( which I pressed upon them as indispensible to the public security ) ...
... honour ! " can be tied down by the narrow rules of technical routine . The committee of foreign relations have indeed decided that the subject of arming the militia ( which I pressed upon them as indispensible to the public security ) ...
Side 33
... honour . A war would give us commerce and character ; and we should enjoy the proud consciousness of having dischar- ged our highest duty to our country . But England it seems is fighting the battles of man- kind ; and we are asked ...
... honour . A war would give us commerce and character ; and we should enjoy the proud consciousness of having dischar- ged our highest duty to our country . But England it seems is fighting the battles of man- kind ; and we are asked ...
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Side 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!
Side 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!
Side 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.
Side 177 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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...