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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... body in it , and lefs fpirit ; that things might make a deeper impreffion on the mind , and be more easily remembred . what is the end of fpeaking , but to perfuade people , and to instruct them in fuch truths as they can retain ? C ...
... body in it , and lefs fpirit ; that things might make a deeper impreffion on the mind , and be more easily remembred . what is the end of fpeaking , but to perfuade people , and to instruct them in fuch truths as they can retain ? C ...
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... body to the plainnefs of country preachers ? fuch men are ufeful among the common people ; but perfons of diftinction have more delicate ears ; and we must adapt our difcourfes to their polite taste . A. You are now leading me off from ...
... body to the plainnefs of country preachers ? fuch men are ufeful among the common people ; but perfons of diftinction have more delicate ears ; and we must adapt our difcourfes to their polite taste . A. You are now leading me off from ...
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... body ; for that is a natural confequence of health and vigour , in bodies that are duly formed . B. I would fuffer no other exercises . A. Would 18 DIALOGUES.
... body ; for that is a natural confequence of health and vigour , in bodies that are duly formed . B. I would fuffer no other exercises . A. Would 18 DIALOGUES.
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... body , there is certainly greater reafon to follow it in the conduct and improve- ment of the mind . A. Would you permit such arts as are only fubfer- vient to pleasure , amufement , and vain curiofity ; and have no relation either to ...
... body , there is certainly greater reafon to follow it in the conduct and improve- ment of the mind . A. Would you permit such arts as are only fubfer- vient to pleasure , amufement , and vain curiofity ; and have no relation either to ...
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... body , or the use of words ; music , dancing , eloquence , and poetry , were invented to ex- prefs the paffions ; and , by that means , to communicate thefe paffions to others . thus did they endeavour to convey noble fentiments to ...
... body , or the use of words ; music , dancing , eloquence , and poetry , were invented to ex- prefs the paffions ; and , by that means , to communicate thefe paffions to others . thus did they endeavour to convey noble fentiments to ...
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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...