The New-York Review, المجلد 9;المجلدات 17-18Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell George Dearborn & Company, 1841 |
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... success at any time under a popular government similarly circumstanced , that Demosthenes , the most exquisite of writers , was the delight , the guide and the glory of the Democracy of Athens . Considering , as we do , the masterpieces ...
... success at any time under a popular government similarly circumstanced , that Demosthenes , the most exquisite of writers , was the delight , the guide and the glory of the Democracy of Athens . Considering , as we do , the masterpieces ...
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... success , their vast research and their matchless criticism . The work of Mr. Becker , men- tioned in our rubric , contains sufficient evidence of this . It is entitled , as our readers will have seen , the " literature " of Demosthenes ...
... success , their vast research and their matchless criticism . The work of Mr. Becker , men- tioned in our rubric , contains sufficient evidence of this . It is entitled , as our readers will have seen , the " literature " of Demosthenes ...
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... successful without the charms of composition , but he also clothes them in the most choice language , arranges them in the most per- fect order , and captivates the ear with a music which is fitted at his will to provoke or to soothe ...
... successful without the charms of composition , but he also clothes them in the most choice language , arranges them in the most per- fect order , and captivates the ear with a music which is fitted at his will to provoke or to soothe ...
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... fierce democracy , and he will see at once the absurdity of ascribing his wonderful success to the art * An Apology for Smectymnus . of tickling the ears or the fancy of his hearers 1841. ] The Man , the Statesman , and the Orator . 19.
... fierce democracy , and he will see at once the absurdity of ascribing his wonderful success to the art * An Apology for Smectymnus . of tickling the ears or the fancy of his hearers 1841. ] The Man , the Statesman , and the Orator . 19.
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... success in spite of difficul- ties . But mere conviction will not do ; he must persuade , for his policy needs the sanction of others , and the success of an enterprise depends upon the spirit in which it is un- dertaken : possunt quia ...
... success in spite of difficul- ties . But mere conviction will not do ; he must persuade , for his policy needs the sanction of others , and the success of an enterprise depends upon the spirit in which it is un- dertaken : possunt quia ...
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الصفحة 371 - Lord had appointed it or not; he charged us, before God and his blessed angels, to follow him no further than he followed Christ; and if God should reveal anything to us by any other Instrument of his, to be as ready to receive it, as ever we were to receive any truth by his Ministry. For he was very confident that the Lord had more truth and light yet to break forth out of his holy word.
الصفحة 289 - And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the HOLY GHOST was upon him.
الصفحة 223 - But, if an act be done under a law, a succeeding legislature cannot undo it. The past cannot be recalled by the most absolute power.
الصفحة 476 - Stood in himself collected, while each part, Motion, each act won audience ere the tongue; Sometimes in...
الصفحة 272 - It has until lately been a received and uncontradicted opinion that the prosperity of the people of America depended on their continuing firmly united, and the wishes, prayers, and efforts of our best and wisest citizens have been constantly directed to that object. But politicians now appear who insist that this opinion is erroneous, and that instead of looking for safety and happiness in union, we ought to seek it in a division of the States into distinct confederacies or sovereignties.
الصفحة 228 - But architecture, sculpture, and painting, all the arts which embellish life, had flourished in this overgrown forest: orators, warriors, and statesmen, beauty, ambition, and glory had lived and passed away, and none knew that such things had been, or could tell of their past existence. Books, the records of knowledge, are silent on this theme.
الصفحة 371 - God, and one with another, to receive whatsoever light or truth shall be made known to us from his written Word ; but withal exhorted us to take heed what we received for truth, and well to examine and compare it and weigh it with other Scriptures of truth before we received it. For, saith he, it is not possible the Christian world should come so lately out of such thick antichristian darkness, and that full perfection of knowledge should break forth at once.
الصفحة 61 - O madness, to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When GOD with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook.
الصفحة 371 - God had not revealed his whole will to them ; and were they now living, saith he, they would be as ready and willing to embrace further light, as that they had received. Here also he...
الصفحة 272 - But if there be any among us dead to all sense of honor and love of their country ; if deaf to all the calls of liberty, virtue, and religion ; if forgetful of the magnanimity of their ancestors, and the happiness of their children ; if neither the examples nor the success of other nations...