Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, 1. köidePress of M. Carey, March 19, 1793 |
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... thought for him- felf . He confulted his own ideas and reflexions : and a great part of what will be found in these lectures is entirely his own . At the fame time , he availed himfelf of the ideas and reflexions of others , as far as ...
... thought for him- felf . He confulted his own ideas and reflexions : and a great part of what will be found in these lectures is entirely his own . At the fame time , he availed himfelf of the ideas and reflexions of others , as far as ...
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... thought open to reprehenfion , all that he can fay , is , that his book will add one to the many proofs already afforded to the world , of its being much easier to give inftruction , than to fet example . CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME ...
... thought open to reprehenfion , all that he can fay , is , that his book will add one to the many proofs already afforded to the world , of its being much easier to give inftruction , than to fet example . CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME ...
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... thoughts to one another . Destitute of this power , reafon would be a folitary , and , in fome measure , an ... thought itself . Small are the advan- ces which a fingle , unaffifted individual can make towards perfecting any of ...
... thoughts to one another . Destitute of this power , reafon would be a folitary , and , in fome measure , an ... thought itself . Small are the advan- ces which a fingle , unaffifted individual can make towards perfecting any of ...
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... thought of , that is oftentatious and deceitful ; the minute and trifling ftudy of words alone ; the pomp of expreffion ; the ftudied fallacies of rhetoric ; ornament fubftituted in the room of ufe . We need not wonder , that , under ...
... thought of , that is oftentatious and deceitful ; the minute and trifling ftudy of words alone ; the pomp of expreffion ; the ftudied fallacies of rhetoric ; ornament fubftituted in the room of ufe . We need not wonder , that , under ...
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... thoughts concern- ing the importance and advantages of fuch studies , and the rank they are entitled to poffefs in academi- cal education * . I am under no temptation , for this purpose , of extolling their importance at the ex- penfe ...
... thoughts concern- ing the importance and advantages of fuch studies , and the rank they are entitled to poffefs in academi- cal education * . I am under no temptation , for this purpose , of extolling their importance at the ex- penfe ...
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Page 47 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: it stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God?
Page 309 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Page 309 - Art thou also become weak as we ? art thou become like unto us? Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
Page 64 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 56 - In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: He heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
Page 389 - Delightful scenes, whether in nature, painting, or poetry, have a kindly influence on the body as well as the mind ; and not only serve to clear and brighten the imagination, but are able to disperse grief and melancholy, and to set the animal spirits in pleasing and agreeable motions.
Page 287 - Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, So that all they which pass by the way do pluck her ? The boar out of the wood doth waste it, < And the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Page 403 - There is a second kind of beauty that we find in the several products of art and nature, which does not work in the imagination with that warmth and violence as the beauty that appears in our proper species, but is apt however to raise in us a secret delight, and a kind of fondness for the places or objects in which we discover it.
Page 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.
Page 181 - Entire, complete. — A thing is entire, by wanting none of its parts ; complete, by wanting none of the appendages that belong to it. A man may have an entire house to himself, and yet not have one complete apartment.