The Debater: a New Theory of the Art of Speaking: Being a Series of Complete Debates, Outlines of Debates, and Questions for DiscussionLongman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1850 - 304 páginas |
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... present a Poetical Age ? 85. Was Louis XIV . a great Man ? 86. Is it the Duty of a Government to make ampler Provision for the Literary Writers of the Nation ? 87. Which is the greater Poet , Mrs. Howitt or Mrs. Hemans ? 88. Should not ...
... present a Poetical Age ? 85. Was Louis XIV . a great Man ? 86. Is it the Duty of a Government to make ampler Provision for the Literary Writers of the Nation ? 87. Which is the greater Poet , Mrs. Howitt or Mrs. Hemans ? 88. Should not ...
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... present conducted on safe and equitable Principles ? - · · 105. Are there good Reasons for supposing that the Ruins recently discovered in Central America are of very great Antiquity ? - 296 106. Do Titles operate beneficially in a ...
... present conducted on safe and equitable Principles ? - · · 105. Are there good Reasons for supposing that the Ruins recently discovered in Central America are of very great Antiquity ? - 296 106. Do Titles operate beneficially in a ...
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... present adopted to convey instruction in the Art of Speaking . The true Art of Speech is the effective repre- sentation of our thoughts by language . To say what we mean , and to say that pleasingly and impressively , are the ends ...
... present adopted to convey instruction in the Art of Speaking . The true Art of Speech is the effective repre- sentation of our thoughts by language . To say what we mean , and to say that pleasingly and impressively , are the ends ...
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... Author ventures to think that a far better mode of instruction in the important study of which he treats , might be easily devised . He is not vain enough to imagine that the present volume developes xiv INTRODUCTION .
... Author ventures to think that a far better mode of instruction in the important study of which he treats , might be easily devised . He is not vain enough to imagine that the present volume developes xiv INTRODUCTION .
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... present volume developes the best plan that could be con- ceived ; but in the absence of a better , it may perhaps be found not altogether unworthy of con- sideration ; at least , it may serve as a pioneer . The idea which this work ...
... present volume developes the best plan that could be con- ceived ; but in the absence of a better , it may perhaps be found not altogether unworthy of con- sideration ; at least , it may serve as a pioneer . The idea which this work ...
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Página 172 - For softness she and sweet attractive grace, He for God only, she for God in him: His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad...
Página 183 - Yea, even that which Mischief meant most harm Shall in the happy trial prove most glory. But evil on itself shall back recoil, And mix no more with goodness...
Página 182 - O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
Página 173 - To speak; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers: Attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth: at last Words, interwove with sighs, found out their way.
Página 182 - All murdered : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be feared, and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and humoured thus, Comes at the last and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and — farewell king! Cover your heads...
Página 180 - Their dread commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Página 19 - Wha will be a traitor knave? Wha can fill a coward's grave? Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn and flee! Wha, for Scotland's King and Law, Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Free-man stand, or Free-man fa', Let him follow me!
Página 209 - By his admirable contrivance, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility, — for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which that power can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it.
Página 182 - tis too late. Lucio. You are too cold. [To Isabella. Isab. Too late? why, no; I, that do speak a word, May call it back again: Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Página 19 - Let him follow me! By oppression's woes and pains ! By your sons in servile chains ! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free ! Lay the proud usurpers low ! Tyrants fall in every foe!