The Orator's Guide, Or, Rules for Speaking and Composing: From the Best Authorities |
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... Language , 35 7. Progress of Language and Writing , 36 8 , Of Taste : -Its Characteristics and Pleasures , 41 9 , Style : Perspicuity and Precision , 43 10 , Classification of the several kinds of Style 45 11 , Simple , Affected and ...
... Language , 35 7. Progress of Language and Writing , 36 8 , Of Taste : -Its Characteristics and Pleasures , 41 9 , Style : Perspicuity and Precision , 43 10 , Classification of the several kinds of Style 45 11 , Simple , Affected and ...
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... language of itself suf ficient to express the height of their passions , unless enforced by uncommon motions and gestures . Thus , when Achilles had driven the Trojans into their city with the greatest precipitation and terror , and ...
... language of itself suf ficient to express the height of their passions , unless enforced by uncommon motions and gestures . Thus , when Achilles had driven the Trojans into their city with the greatest precipitation and terror , and ...
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... language imaginable , but they violently tear off their grey locks with their hands , and adjure him to comply with their request . The poet well knew , that no words of themselves sould represent those agonies of mind he endeavoured to ...
... language imaginable , but they violently tear off their grey locks with their hands , and adjure him to comply with their request . The poet well knew , that no words of themselves sould represent those agonies of mind he endeavoured to ...
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... The business of these persons was to make observations upon their perform- ances , both with respect to the language which they used , and the manner of pronunciation ; and they were expected to use the greatest freedom , to take notice 16.
... The business of these persons was to make observations upon their perform- ances , both with respect to the language which they used , and the manner of pronunciation ; and they were expected to use the greatest freedom , to take notice 16.
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... language , of more than one syllable , has , at least , one accented syllable . This syllable ought to be rightly known , and the word should be pronounced by the speaker in the same manner as he would pronounce it in ordinary conver ...
... language , of more than one syllable , has , at least , one accented syllable . This syllable ought to be rightly known , and the word should be pronounced by the speaker in the same manner as he would pronounce it in ordinary conver ...
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Page 85 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse: which I observing, Took once a pliant hour; and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart That I would all my pilgrimage dilate...
Page 99 - The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me : give place to me that I may dwell.
Page 84 - Their dearest action in the tented field, And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle, And therefore little shall I grace my cause In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious...
Page 85 - Took once a pliant hour; and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart That I would all my pilgrimage dilate, Whereof by parcels...
Page 96 - And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
Page 100 - Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
Page 101 - Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath. " That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us...
Page 68 - No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced — no matter what complexion, incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon...
Page 99 - For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
Page 99 - Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.