The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 1George Ramsay & Company, 1808 |
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... sentiments in every thing wherein their subjects coincide. A man must have an uncommon confidence in his own faculties, (I might have said in his own infallibility) who is not sensibly more satisfied of the justness of their procedure ...
... sentiments in every thing wherein their subjects coincide. A man must have an uncommon confidence in his own faculties, (I might have said in his own infallibility) who is not sensibly more satisfied of the justness of their procedure ...
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... sentiments in every thing wherein their subjects coincide . A man must have an uncommon confidence in his own facul- ties , ( I might have said in his own infallibi- lity ) who is not sensibly more satisfied of the justness of their ...
... sentiments in every thing wherein their subjects coincide . A man must have an uncommon confidence in his own facul- ties , ( I might have said in his own infallibi- lity ) who is not sensibly more satisfied of the justness of their ...
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... . Relation to the persons concerned . Part VII . Interest in the consequences . SECT . VI . Other passions as well as moral sentiments - 196 197 useful auxiliaries . 199 SECT . VII . How an unfavourable passion must be XIV CONTENTS .
... . Relation to the persons concerned . Part VII . Interest in the consequences . SECT . VI . Other passions as well as moral sentiments - 196 197 useful auxiliaries . 199 SECT . VII . How an unfavourable passion must be XIV CONTENTS .
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... sentiments , passions , dispositions , and purposes . Nay , without this , the greatest talents , even wisdom itself , lose much of their lustre , and still more of their useful- ness . The wise in heart , saith Solomon , shall be ...
... sentiments , passions , dispositions , and purposes . Nay , without this , the greatest talents , even wisdom itself , lose much of their lustre , and still more of their useful- ness . The wise in heart , saith Solomon , shall be ...
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... sentiments of grandeur , beauty , novelty , and the like , are calculated to delight the imagination . In this view , eloquence comes no farther under con sideration , than as a fine art , and adapted , like the others abovementioned ...
... sentiments of grandeur , beauty , novelty , and the like , are calculated to delight the imagination . In this view , eloquence comes no farther under con sideration , than as a fine art , and adapted , like the others abovementioned ...
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Página 36 - Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux. Now awful beauty puts on all its arms ; The fair each moment rises in her charms, Repairs her smiles, awakens every grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face : Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes.
Página 35 - And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box.
Página 35 - A heavenly image in the glass appears, To that she bends, to that her eyes she rears ; The inferior priestess, at her altar's side, Trembling begins the sacred rites of pride.
Página 412 - It celebrates the church of England, as the most perfect of all others, in discipline and doctrine ; it advances no opinion they reject, nor condemns any they receive.
Página 413 - We next went to the school of languages, where three professors sat in consultation upon improving that of their own country. The first project was to shorten discourse by cutting polysyllables into one, and leaving out verbs and participles, because in reality all things imaginable are but nouns.
Página 73 - So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music: Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself, and scorn'd his spirit That could be mov'd to smile at any thing.
Página 284 - And went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn and took care of him.
Página 14 - All the ends of speaking are reducible to four ; every speech being intended to enlighten the understanding, to please the imagination, to move the passions, or to influence the will.
Página 164 - The coolest reasoner always in persuading, addresseth himself to the passions some way or other. This he cannot avoid doing, if he speak to the purpose. To make me believe, it is enough to show me that things are so ; to make me act, it is necessary to show that the action will answer some End.
Página 61 - And Milo-like surveys his arms and hands ; Then, sighing, thus, " And am I now three-score? Ah why, ye gods, should two and two make four?