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... person would be submerged in a crowd ; and not a fragment of his composition has been preserved which does not bear the impress of a certain description of fastidious- ness . Strange to say , these fragments manifest that very proneness ...
... person would be submerged in a crowd ; and not a fragment of his composition has been preserved which does not bear the impress of a certain description of fastidious- ness . Strange to say , these fragments manifest that very proneness ...
الصفحة 39
... person were eminently adapted for oratorical display ; and his writings abound in indications of the qualities by which he won his admitted supremacy in debate.1 Take , for example , what Lord Brougham calls a noble passage , ' from the ...
... person were eminently adapted for oratorical display ; and his writings abound in indications of the qualities by which he won his admitted supremacy in debate.1 Take , for example , what Lord Brougham calls a noble passage , ' from the ...
الصفحة 40
... person what he requires in the genuine orator , when he lays down that ' eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring , and not spout forth a little frothy water on some gaudy day , and remain dry the rest of the ...
... person what he requires in the genuine orator , when he lays down that ' eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring , and not spout forth a little frothy water on some gaudy day , and remain dry the rest of the ...
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... person that hears me can come within the description of the person I am to suppose - let us suppose in this , or some other unfortunate country , an anti - minister , who thinks himself a person of so great and extensive parts , and of ...
... person that hears me can come within the description of the person I am to suppose - let us suppose in this , or some other unfortunate country , an anti - minister , who thinks himself a person of so great and extensive parts , and of ...
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... person now in being ; but if we can suppose such a one , can there be imagined a greater disgrace to human nature ... persons holding commissions from the Crown had gone out in a division against the Court , a Secretary of State , Lord ...
... person now in being ; but if we can suppose such a one , can there be imagined a greater disgrace to human nature ... persons holding commissions from the Crown had gone out in a division against the Court , a Secretary of State , Lord ...
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