Lectures on rhetoric &cT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1820 |
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Side 6
... honour , by chusing always that side of the debate to which , in their own judgment , they are most inclined , and supporting it by what seems to themselves most solid and persuasive . They will acquire the habit of reasoning closely ...
... honour , by chusing always that side of the debate to which , in their own judgment , they are most inclined , and supporting it by what seems to themselves most solid and persuasive . They will acquire the habit of reasoning closely ...
Side 25
... honour and your " interest require , you will not only discover the " weakness and insincerity of his confederates , but " the ruinous condition also of his own kingdom . " For you are not to imagine , that the inclinations . " of his ...
... honour and your " interest require , you will not only discover the " weakness and insincerity of his confederates , but " the ruinous condition also of his own kingdom . " For you are not to imagine , that the inclinations . " of his ...
Side 40
... honour in the person who undertakes to persuade . * It is scarcely possible for any hearer to separate altogether the impression made by the character of him that speaks , from the things that he says . However secretly and ...
... honour in the person who undertakes to persuade . * It is scarcely possible for any hearer to separate altogether the impression made by the character of him that speaks , from the things that he says . However secretly and ...
Side 44
... honour , could no longer live on any tolerable terms with a woman , a mother only in the name , who had loaded herself and all her family with so much dis- honour ; and hence the feud which had ever since subsisted between them , and ...
... honour , could no longer live on any tolerable terms with a woman , a mother only in the name , who had loaded herself and all her family with so much dis- honour ; and hence the feud which had ever since subsisted between them , and ...
Side 55
... honour ; you will restore " him to his friends and fellow - citizens , of whose " zeal and high estimation of him you have seen " such strong proofs ; and will show , by your deci- " sion , that though faction and calumny may reign ...
... honour ; you will restore " him to his friends and fellow - citizens , of whose " zeal and high estimation of him you have seen " such strong proofs ; and will show , by your deci- " sion , that though faction and calumny may reign ...
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Side 81 - If I were hungry I would not tell thee : for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats ? Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most high.
Side 352 - Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me : and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Side 342 - For the LORD is great, and greatly to be praised : he is to be feared above all gods.
Side 351 - He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God ; and he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds ; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Side 343 - Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? and who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
Side 347 - And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water : in the habitation of dragons where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
Side 336 - But first, whom shall we send In search of this new world ? whom shall we find Sufficient ? who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark, unbottom'd, infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way...
Side 300 - Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain, Then, hid in shades, eludes her eager swain ; But feigns a laugh to see me search around, And by that laugh the willing fair is found.
Side 81 - I have no need of a bull from your stall or of goats from your pens, for every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.
Side 174 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support...