Modern Eloquence, Volume 4Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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... standing in the centre represents Lyric Poetry ; while on each side are arrayed the sentiments called forth by her song . To her left are Pathos , looking upward as if calling upon Heaven to allay her grief ; and Truth , a beautiful ...
... standing in the centre represents Lyric Poetry ; while on each side are arrayed the sentiments called forth by her song . To her left are Pathos , looking upward as if calling upon Heaven to allay her grief ; and Truth , a beautiful ...
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... stands before the speaker . The sermon , however , may have all those characteristics , and then become a pulpit oration , subject to the same laws of criticism . Such certainly were the sermons of Martin Luther and of John Knox . If it ...
... stands before the speaker . The sermon , however , may have all those characteristics , and then become a pulpit oration , subject to the same laws of criticism . Such certainly were the sermons of Martin Luther and of John Knox . If it ...
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... stand in some measure the yearning for speeches which takes possession of any large assembly . Either speeches or dispersion the multitude must have , and so people with the most honest intentions as to silence break forth into sound ...
... stand in some measure the yearning for speeches which takes possession of any large assembly . Either speeches or dispersion the multitude must have , and so people with the most honest intentions as to silence break forth into sound ...
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... stand to one an- other . And when men investigate all differences which exist among their fellow - men , it is with the view of ascer- taining whether men originated from one pair or whether there is a multiple origin to humanity . You ...
... stand to one an- other . And when men investigate all differences which exist among their fellow - men , it is with the view of ascer- taining whether men originated from one pair or whether there is a multiple origin to humanity . You ...
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... stand far above those known to the ancients ; and among them are none more striking than the orang- outang of Borneo , Java , and Sumatra , and the chimpanzee of the Coast of Guinea . These two species excited the curiosity of ...
... stand far above those known to the ancients ; and among them are none more striking than the orang- outang of Borneo , Java , and Sumatra , and the chimpanzee of the Coast of Guinea . These two species excited the curiosity of ...
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