The Art of Speaking: Containing. An Essay, in which are Given Rules for Expressing Properly the Principal Passions and Humours, which Occur in Reading, Or Public Speaking. And Lessons, Taken from the Ancients and Moderns; Exhibiting a Variety of Matter for Practice; the Emphatical Words Printed in Italics; with Notes of Direction Referring to the Essay ... |
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As it depends upon , and consists in practice , more than theory , it requires the
earlier initiation : that practice may have its full scope , before the time of life
arrives , in which there may be occasion for public exhibition . Mankind must
speak ...
As it depends upon , and consists in practice , more than theory , it requires the
earlier initiation : that practice may have its full scope , before the time of life
arrives , in which there may be occasion for public exhibition . Mankind must
speak ...
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Men of learning , especially physicians , and divines , are apt to get into a
fulsome , bombastic way of uttering themselves on all occasions , as if they were
dictating , when perhaps the business is of no greater consequence , than What's
a ...
Men of learning , especially physicians , and divines , are apt to get into a
fulsome , bombastic way of uttering themselves on all occasions , as if they were
dictating , when perhaps the business is of no greater consequence , than What's
a ...
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There may be other humours or passions , besides these , which a reader , or
speaker , may have occasion to express . But these are the principal . And , if
there be any others , they will occur among the following examples for practice ,
taken ...
There may be other humours or passions , besides these , which a reader , or
speaker , may have occasion to express . But these are the principal . And , if
there be any others , they will occur among the following examples for practice ,
taken ...
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He does not come forward , but when he has occasion to solicit . He does not
raise his voice , but to express ... But much less than all this , is generally
speaking , sufficient for most occasions . There is an error , which is too
inconsiderately ...
He does not come forward , but when he has occasion to solicit . He does not
raise his voice , but to express ... But much less than all this , is generally
speaking , sufficient for most occasions . There is an error , which is too
inconsiderately ...
الصفحة 189
The time was now come , they told me , when they had Intreating . but too much
occasion to claim my promise ; for that they were now in want of protection , not
for their property only , but even for their lives , Pity . and for securing the very ...
The time was now come , they told me , when they had Intreating . but too much
occasion to claim my promise ; for that they were now in want of protection , not
for their property only , but even for their lives , Pity . and for securing the very ...
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الصفحة 122 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? 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 ! Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes...
الصفحة 166 - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent; And many an error, by the same example, Will rush into the state: it cannot be.
الصفحة 173 - I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?
الصفحة 143 - Cassius, now Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point ? ' Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in And bade him follow : so indeed he did. The torrent roar'd, and we did buffet it With lusty sinews, throwing it aside And stemming it with hearts of controversy ; But ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried ' Help me, Cassius, or I sink...
الصفحة 143 - As a sick girl. Ye gods ! it doth amaze me A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.
الصفحة 161 - Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
الصفحة 167 - Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh; But, in the cutting it, if thou dost shed One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate Unto the state of Venice.
الصفحة 125 - Nine years!' cries he, who, high in Drury Lane, Lull'd by soft zephyrs through the broken pane, Rhymes ere he wakes, and prints before Term ends, Obliged by hunger, and request of friends: 'The piece, you think, is incorrect? why take it, I'm all submission; what you'd have it, make it.
الصفحة 123 - To whom the goblin full of wrath replied. «Art thou that traitor- Angel, art thou He> Who first broke peace in Heaven ; and faith, till then Unbroken, and in proud rebellious arms Drew after him the third part of Heaven's sons...
الصفحة 122 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
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| العنوان | The Art of Speaking: Containing. An Essay, in which are Given Rules for Expressing Properly the Principal Passions and Humours, which Occur in Reading, Or Public Speaking. And Lessons, Taken from the Ancients and Moderns; Exhibiting a Variety of Matter for Practice; the Emphatical Words Printed ... |
| المؤلف | James Burgh |
| الناشر | S. Butler, 1804 |
| أصلي من | جامعة ميتشيغان |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 7 أيلول (سبتمبر) 2007 |
| عدد الصفحات | 291 من الصفحات |
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