Essays from Select British EloquenceSouthern Illinois University Press, 1963 - 359 pages |
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Page vii
... eloquence must do it chiefly by examples . " The author of this volume was forcibly struck with this remark in early life ; and in entering on the office of Professor of Rhetoric in Yale College , more than thirty years ago , besides ...
... eloquence must do it chiefly by examples . " The author of this volume was forcibly struck with this remark in early life ; and in entering on the office of Professor of Rhetoric in Yale College , more than thirty years ago , besides ...
Page x
... eloquence may be able to possess it . Each page contains the matter of three ordi- nary octavo pages in Pica type ; and the whole work has in it one sixth more than Chapman's Select Speeches , or Willison's American Eloquence , in five ...
... eloquence may be able to possess it . Each page contains the matter of three ordi- nary octavo pages in Pica type ; and the whole work has in it one sixth more than Chapman's Select Speeches , or Willison's American Eloquence , in five ...
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... eloquence ” included the letters of Junius , excerpts of Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution , and Sir James Mackintosh's essay on the Character of Charles J. Fox . States Goodrich of Junius ( see pp . 79-80 of this volume ) ...
... eloquence ” included the letters of Junius , excerpts of Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution , and Sir James Mackintosh's essay on the Character of Charles J. Fox . States Goodrich of Junius ( see pp . 79-80 of this volume ) ...
Contents
SIR JOHN ELIOT | 3 |
SIR ROBERT WALPOLE | 19 |
LORD MANSFIELD | 69 |
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Essays from Select British Eloquence: Landmarks in Rhetoric and Public Address Chauncey Allen Goodrich No preview available - 2012 |
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