Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, المجلد 1Cadell and Davies; F.C. and J. Rivington; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; ... and A. Constable and Company and J. Fairbairn at Edinburgh., 1819 - 498 من الصفحات |
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... kind which have so often disgraced oratory , and debased it below its true standard . The graces of composition have been employed to disguise or to supply the want of matter ; and the temporary applause of the ignorant has been courted ...
... kind which have so often disgraced oratory , and debased it below its true standard . The graces of composition have been employed to disguise or to supply the want of matter ; and the temporary applause of the ignorant has been courted ...
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... kind , may wish only to improve their taste with respect to writing and discourse , and to acquire principles which will enable them to judge for themselves in that part of literature called the Belles Lettres . With respect to the ...
... kind , may wish only to improve their taste with respect to writing and discourse , and to acquire principles which will enable them to judge for themselves in that part of literature called the Belles Lettres . With respect to the ...
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... kind with those which I mentioned before , with respect to rhetoric . As rhetoric has been sometimes thought to signify nothing more than the scholastic study of words , and phrases , and tropes , so criticism has been considered as ...
... kind with those which I mentioned before , with respect to rhetoric . As rhetoric has been sometimes thought to signify nothing more than the scholastic study of words , and phrases , and tropes , so criticism has been considered as ...
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... kind , it is not to be doubted , will appear to derive part of their importance from the use to which they may be applied in furnishing materials for those fashionable topics of discourse , and thereby enabling us to support a proper ...
... kind , it is not to be doubted , will appear to derive part of their importance from the use to which they may be applied in furnishing materials for those fashionable topics of discourse , and thereby enabling us to support a proper ...
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... kind ; the progress of the understanding in its search after knowledge , and the direction of the will in the proper pursuit of good . They point out to man the improvement of his nature as an intelli- gent being ; and his duties as the ...
... kind ; the progress of the understanding in its search after knowledge , and the direction of the will in the proper pursuit of good . They point out to man the improvement of his nature as an intelli- gent being ; and his duties as the ...
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الصفحة 57 - And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
الصفحة 323 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God ; I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north : I will ascend above the heights of the clouds ; I will be like the Most High.
الصفحة 324 - But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit ; as a carcase trodden under feet. Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people : The seed of evil-doers shall never be renowned.
الصفحة 404 - He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession.
الصفحة 260 - Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
الصفحة 323 - And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy...
الصفحة 50 - Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, and bade the father of his country 'hail! for lo! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, and Rome again is free!
الصفحة 407 - ... clear and brighten the imagination, but are able to disperse grief and melancholy, and to set the animal spirits in pleasing and agreeable motions. For this reason Sir Francis Bacon, in his Essay upon Health,' has not thought it improper to prescribe to his reader a poem or a prospect, where he particularly dissuades him from knotty and subtile disquisitions, and advises him to pursue studies that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious objects, as histories, fables, and contemplations of...
الصفحة 396 - Our sight seems designed to supply all these defects, and may be considered as a more delicate and diffusive kind of touch, that spreads itself over an infinite multitude of bodies, comprehends the largest figures, and brings into our reach some of the most remote parts of the universe.
الصفحة 58 - That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.