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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... produced his equal as an independent thinker . He taught men to think , as Lord Bacon , his pupil and his peer , taught them to experiment . - With his one He was born at Stagira , in Chalcidice , 384 B. C. In his eighteenth year he ...
... produced his equal as an independent thinker . He taught men to think , as Lord Bacon , his pupil and his peer , taught them to experiment . - With his one He was born at Stagira , in Chalcidice , 384 B. C. In his eighteenth year he ...
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... produced ; respecting every such description [ of good or evil ] there never is any deliberation : neither , in fact , is there about every one even of contingent subjects ; for of goods which may or may not accrue , some exist natu ...
... produced ; respecting every such description [ of good or evil ] there never is any deliberation : neither , in fact , is there about every one even of contingent subjects ; for of goods which may or may not accrue , some exist natu ...
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... produce its opposites . Let happiness , then , be defined to be good fortune in conjunction with virtue , — or ... produces or preserves such advantages ; 9. and that on which they are consequent . 10. Whatever , too , has a tendency to ...
... produce its opposites . Let happiness , then , be defined to be good fortune in conjunction with virtue , — or ... produces or preserves such advantages ; 9. and that on which they are consequent . 10. Whatever , too , has a tendency to ...
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... produce health . These things being laid down , it must be , of course , that acquisitions of good , and the exemptions from evil , are good ; for on the one is consequent the non- possession of evil simultaneously ; on the other , the ...
... produce health . These things being laid down , it must be , of course , that acquisitions of good , and the exemptions from evil , are good ; for on the one is consequent the non- possession of evil simultaneously ; on the other , the ...
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... produced It would appear , too , that All things originate in compulsion , which are need of conformably to a certain nature , or any other cause . chance is the cause of such results . produced through the instrumentality of the agents ...
... produced It would appear , too , that All things originate in compulsion , which are need of conformably to a certain nature , or any other cause . chance is the cause of such results . produced through the instrumentality of the agents ...
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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.