The Handbook of Oratory: A Cyclopedia of Authorities on Oratory as an Art and of Celebrated Passages from the Best Orations from the Earliest Period to the Present TimeWilliam Vincent Byars F. P. Kaiser, 1901 - 533 pages |
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... possible to hear it . Chappel's work as an illustrator during the first half of the nineteenth century entitles him to permanent remembrance among American historical painters . has been estimated by his own generation and that which ...
... possible to hear it . Chappel's work as an illustrator during the first half of the nineteenth century entitles him to permanent remembrance among American historical painters . has been estimated by his own generation and that which ...
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... Insects - 353 Property for the Fittest The Schoolmaster the Greatest Con- queror - 353 - 358 - 358 Religion Makes Co - operation Possible - 359 Revolutions at Their Flood - - 359 to Be Made Too Easy » " Things that Are TABLE OF CONTENTS ix.
... Insects - 353 Property for the Fittest The Schoolmaster the Greatest Con- queror - 353 - 358 - 358 Religion Makes Co - operation Possible - 359 Revolutions at Their Flood - - 359 to Be Made Too Easy » " Things that Are TABLE OF CONTENTS ix.
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... Possible ; Violently , if Necessary » 438 SHERIDAN , RICHARD BRINSLEY ( 1751-1816 ) Filial Piety Commercialism Militant - England · 444 · · 445 QUINTILIAN Rome ( 35-95 A. D. ) Justice 445 Brilliancy in Oratory 438 SHERMAN , JOHN America ...
... Possible ; Violently , if Necessary » 438 SHERIDAN , RICHARD BRINSLEY ( 1751-1816 ) Filial Piety Commercialism Militant - England · 444 · · 445 QUINTILIAN Rome ( 35-95 A. D. ) Justice 445 Brilliancy in Oratory 438 SHERMAN , JOHN America ...
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... possible influence . The distinction between oratory and rhetoric has not been clearly made even in modern times ; and by classical writers it is not made at all . A great part of the works of Quintilian and much of the treatises of ...
... possible influence . The distinction between oratory and rhetoric has not been clearly made even in modern times ; and by classical writers it is not made at all . A great part of the works of Quintilian and much of the treatises of ...
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... possible . It remains only to be added that the classical oration is not divided by its parts , but rather united by them into a harmonious , consecutive , coherent whole . Assuredly Charles Dickens in writing the speech of Sergeant ...
... possible . It remains only to be added that the classical oration is not divided by its parts , but rather united by them into a harmonious , consecutive , coherent whole . Assuredly Charles Dickens in writing the speech of Sergeant ...
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Page 474 - twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot, And thereby hangs a tale. When I did hear The motley fool thus moral on the time, My lungs began to crow like chanticleer, That fools should be so deep-contemplative ; And I did laugh, sans intermission, An hour by his dial. — O noble fool ! A worthy fool ! Motley's the only wear.
Page 419 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push...
Page 474 - The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing.
Page 479 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly. If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, With his surcease, success; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all — here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come.
Page 397 - I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid ? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings, that " except the Lord build the house they labor in vain that build it.
Page 358 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Page 483 - Eternal coeternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate! Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 478 - Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms, Quite vanquished him. Then burst his mighty heart; And in his mantle muffling up his face, Even at the base of Pompey's statue (Which all the while ran blood) great Caesar fell.
Page 480 - My very noble and approved good masters, — That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter, It is most true ; true, I have married her ; The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech, And little bless'd with the set phrase of peace ; For since these arms of mine had seven years...
Page 484 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into naught ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.