Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles LettresG. & C. & H. Carvill, 1829 - 557 páginas |
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... thought for himself . He con- sulted his own ideas and reflections : and a great part of what will be found in these Lectures is entirely his own . At the same time he availed himself of the ideas and reflections of others , as far as ...
... thought for himself . He con- sulted his own ideas and reflections : and a great part of what will be found in these Lectures is entirely his own . At the same time he availed himself of the ideas and reflections of others , as far as ...
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... thought , by taking pains to embellish them by all the beauties of language and elegant expression , and by repeatedly examining with the severity of an enlightened critic , every sentence , and erasing every harsh and uncouth phrase ...
... thought , by taking pains to embellish them by all the beauties of language and elegant expression , and by repeatedly examining with the severity of an enlightened critic , every sentence , and erasing every harsh and uncouth phrase ...
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... thoughts to one another . Destitute of this power , reason would be a solitary , and , in some measure , an ... thought itself . Small are the advances which a single unassisted individual can make towards perfecting any of his ...
... thoughts to one another . Destitute of this power , reason would be a solitary , and , in some measure , an ... thought itself . Small are the advances which a single unassisted individual can make towards perfecting any of his ...
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... thought of , that is ostentatious and deceitful ; the minute and trifling study of words alone ; the pomp of expression ; the studied fallacies of rhetoric ; ornament substituted in the room of use . We need not wonder , that , under ...
... thought of , that is ostentatious and deceitful ; the minute and trifling study of words alone ; the pomp of expression ; the studied fallacies of rhetoric ; ornament substituted in the room of use . We need not wonder , that , under ...
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... thoughts that ought to be avoided ; and thereby tend to enlighten taste , and to lead genius from unnatural ... thought . Yet hence arises a new reason for the study of just and proper composition . If it be requisite not to be ...
... thoughts that ought to be avoided ; and thereby tend to enlighten taste , and to lead genius from unnatural ... thought . Yet hence arises a new reason for the study of just and proper composition . If it be requisite not to be ...
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Página 179 - All the kings of the nations, even all of them, Lie in glory, every one in his own house. But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch...
Página 459 - Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name : bring an offering, and come into his courts. O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness : fear before him, all the earth.
Página 462 - Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me : and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Página 459 - Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? and who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
Página 221 - A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures, that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description,* and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession.
Página 459 - O SING unto the LORD a new song: Sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
Página 462 - The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me. He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God...
Página 216 - Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; but at the same time it is very much straitened and confined in its operations to the number, bulk,...
Página 40 - Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself...
Página 481 - Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man, in the land of Canaan ; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.