Oration on the Comparativ [sic] Elements and Dutys [sic] of Grecian and American Eloquence: Delivered Before the Erodelphian Society of Miami University, at Oxford, Ohio, on the 23d of September, 1834, Being Their Ninth Anniversary Celebration, with NotesTruman and Smith, 1834 - 56 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 47 - In counterpoise ; now ponders all events, Battles and realms : in these he put two weights, The sequel each of parting and of fight: The latter quick up flew, and kick'd the beam...
الصفحة 49 - How high they soared above the crowd! Theirs was no common party race, Jostling by dark intrigue for place; Like fabled Gods, their mighty war Shook realms and nations in its jar; Beneath each banner proud to stand, Looked up the noblest of the land, Till through the British world were known The names of PITT and Fox alone.
الصفحة 5 - MAN, the noblest work of God in this lower world, walks abroad through its "'"labyrinths of grandeur and beauty, amid countless manifestations of creative power and providential wisdom. He acknowledges, in all that he beholds, the might that called them into being; the skill which perfected the harmony of the parts, and the benevolence which ''"consecrated all to the glory of God and the welfare of his fellow creatures.
الصفحة 7 - ... of his wisdom and goodness, with the fair, the sublime, the wonderful in the physical creation. What, indeed, are these, but the outward manifestations of his might, skill, and benevolence? What are they but a glorious volume, forever speaking to the eye and ear of man, in the language of sight and sound, the praises of its author?
الصفحة 10 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
الصفحة 5 - ... the + fabulous river of the skies were pouring its azure waves over all the landscape. 2. He hangs over the precipice, and gazes with awful delight on the savage glen, rent open as it were, by the earthquake, and black with lightning-shattered rocks; its only music the echoing thunder, the scream of the lonely eagle, and the "'"tumultuous waters of the mountain torrent. He reclines, in pensive mood, on the hill-top, and sees around and beneath him, all the "''luxuriant beauties of field and meadow,...
الصفحة 52 - Well by his visage you might know He was a stalworth knight, and keen, And had in many a battle been ; The scar on his brown cheek revealed A token true of Bosworth field ; His eyebrow dark, and eye of fire, Showed spirit proud and prompt to ire ; Yet lines of thought upon his cheek Did deep design and counsel speak.
الصفحة 6 - Admirable as the natural world is for its sublimity and beauty, who would compare it, even for an instant, with the sublimity and beauty of the moral world?
الصفحة 5 - He hangs over the precipice, and gazes with awful de^ light on the savage glen, rent open as it were, by the earthquake, and black with lightning-shattered rocks ; its only music the echoing thunder, the scream of the lonely eagle, and the "'"tumultuous waters of the mountain torrent. He reclines, in pensive mood, on the hill-top, and sees around and beneath him, all the +luxuriant beauties of field and meadow, of olive-yard and vineyard, of wandering stream and grove-encircled lake. 3. He descends...
الصفحة 15 - mid wreck Of whirlwinds and dire lightnings huge he stood, Where his own Gods he deem'd on volleying clouds Abroad were riding and black hurricane. Them in their misty pride assail'd he oft With impious threat, and laugh'd when th' echoing glens His wild defiance cast unanswered back.