Elements of Rhetoric: Designed as a Manual of InstructionE. H. Butler & Company, 1859 - 367 pages |
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... been used , the author has chosen his examples from the Bible , and , as far as possible , from modern English and American writers . His effort has been to be perspicuous and simple in treating of a subject , which , as a iv PREFACE .
... been used , the author has chosen his examples from the Bible , and , as far as possible , from modern English and American writers . His effort has been to be perspicuous and simple in treating of a subject , which , as a iv PREFACE .
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... simple arguments , as to their validity or invalidity : i . e . , the process of passing from two known judgments to a third which is dependent upon them , and grows out of their union . Not the invention of these arguments , which must ...
... simple arguments , as to their validity or invalidity : i . e . , the process of passing from two known judgments to a third which is dependent upon them , and grows out of their union . Not the invention of these arguments , which must ...
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... simple , and universal , it consists in passing from known pre- misses to a conclusion justly deduced from them . All the logical processes then may be made independent on the language used , or the subject thoughts con- veyed . We ...
... simple , and universal , it consists in passing from known pre- misses to a conclusion justly deduced from them . All the logical processes then may be made independent on the language used , or the subject thoughts con- veyed . We ...
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... simple and insignificant things as to render them new objects of human sympathy . Thus we have in Milton's Comus : - Wrapped in a pleasing fit of melancholy , To meditate my rural imnstrelsy , Till Fancy has her fill . But it is ...
... simple and insignificant things as to render them new objects of human sympathy . Thus we have in Milton's Comus : - Wrapped in a pleasing fit of melancholy , To meditate my rural imnstrelsy , Till Fancy has her fill . But it is ...
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... simple or a complex faculty . This power is the universal gift of God to man , although in different degrees ; thus , the coarse tastes of the savage differ from the refined tastes of civilized life ; and yet all will agree that sugar ...
... simple or a complex faculty . This power is the universal gift of God to man , although in different degrees ; thus , the coarse tastes of the savage differ from the refined tastes of civilized life ; and yet all will agree that sugar ...
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Page 89 - Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.
Page 338 - Apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds.
Page 327 - Then came Peter to him, and said ; Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him ? till seven times ? Jesus saith unto him ; I say not unto thee, until seven times, but until seventy times seven.
Page 91 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
Page 56 - By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
Page 78 - THESE, as they change, Almighty Father, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of Thee. Forth in the pleasing Spring Thy beauty walks, Thy tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy.
Page 352 - Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that over-sprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 352 - Less than a god they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell That spoke so sweetly and so well. What passion cannot Music raise and quell!
Page 85 - And to and fro, and in and out, The wan stars danced between. And the coming wind did roar more loud, And the sails did sigh like sedge ; And the rain poured down from one black cloud, The moon was at its edge.
Page 105 - Then grew the flowing and watery vein of Osorius, the Portugal bishop, to be in price. Then did Sturmius spend such infinite and curious pains upon Cicero the orator and Hermogenes the rhetorician, besides his own books of periods and imitation and the like. Then did Car of Cambridge, and Ascham, with their lectures and writings, almost deify Cicero and Demosthenes, and allure all young men that were studious unto that delicate and polished kind of learning. Then did Erasmus take occasion to make...