Dialogues Concerning Eloquence in General: And Particularly that Kind which is Fit for the PulpitR. and A. Foulis, 1760 - 333 pages |
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... Some critics will think I have too of- ten neglected fuch connecting particles as for , but , feeing , & c . there is a peculiar beauty in this omiffion : and Ihould have left - out many more , if I had 2 4 ADVERTISEMENT . vii.
... Some critics will think I have too of- ten neglected fuch connecting particles as for , but , feeing , & c . there is a peculiar beauty in this omiffion : and Ihould have left - out many more , if I had 2 4 ADVERTISEMENT . vii.
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... some surprizing turn . he gave fuch just characters of common life , that his hearers found their various pictures faithfully drawn : and his exact anatomy of all the paffions equalled the maxims of the great ROCHEFOCAULT . in fhort , I ...
... some surprizing turn . he gave fuch just characters of common life , that his hearers found their various pictures faithfully drawn : and his exact anatomy of all the paffions equalled the maxims of the great ROCHEFOCAULT . in fhort , I ...
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... some tricks of legerdemain . did this preacher use such a serious grave manner of address as might make you hope for fomething useful and important from him ? but , to re- turn to the point you proposed ; did you not ask me whether I ...
... some tricks of legerdemain . did this preacher use such a serious grave manner of address as might make you hope for fomething useful and important from him ? but , to re- turn to the point you proposed ; did you not ask me whether I ...
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... some fashionable prejudices biass your judgment , reason will foon convince you of the truth . I would therefore have you believe neither Ifo- crates , nor Plato : but judge of them both , by clear principles . now I fuppofe you will ...
... some fashionable prejudices biass your judgment , reason will foon convince you of the truth . I would therefore have you believe neither Ifo- crates , nor Plato : but judge of them both , by clear principles . now I fuppofe you will ...
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... are indigent , and almost starving , to be judges in your commonwealth ? would you not be afraid that their wants might expofe them to corruption ; or be- tray them into some dishonourable compliance ? would you not 36 DIALOGUES.
... are indigent , and almost starving , to be judges in your commonwealth ? would you not be afraid that their wants might expofe them to corruption ; or be- tray them into some dishonourable compliance ? would you not 36 DIALOGUES.
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Page 138 - Behold, the Lord God will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
Page 139 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: that bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Page 137 - For the Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Page 139 - Have ye not known ? have ye not heard ? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in...
Page 140 - She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks : Among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her : All her friends have dealt treacherously with her, They are become her enemies.
Page 141 - The mountains quake at Him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at His presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. Who can stand before His indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of His anger? His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by Him.
Page 137 - He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock...
Page 142 - Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, Which camp in the hedges in the cold day, But when the sun ariseth they flee away, And their place is not known where they are.
Page 141 - Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
Page 26 - Studies of men, nothing may be sooner obtain'd, than this vicious abundance of Phrase, this trick of Metaphors, this volubility of Tongue, which makes so great a noise in the World. But I spend words in vain ; for the evil is now so inveterate, that it is hard to know whom to blame, or where to begin to reform. We all value one another...