Essays from Select British EloquenceSouthern Illinois University Press, 1963 - 359 pages |
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Page 65
... remarked , that " Lord Chatham struck on the results of reason- ing as a cannon - shot strikes the mark , without your seeing its course through the air . " Perhaps a bomb - shell would have furnished even a better illustration . It ...
... remarked , that " Lord Chatham struck on the results of reason- ing as a cannon - shot strikes the mark , without your seeing its course through the air . " Perhaps a bomb - shell would have furnished even a better illustration . It ...
Page 81
... remarked , in an address delivered not long before his death , that here lay the chief de- ficiency of our public speakers - that the want of severe intel- lectual discipline was the great want of American orators . There is also ...
... remarked , in an address delivered not long before his death , that here lay the chief de- ficiency of our public speakers - that the want of severe intel- lectual discipline was the great want of American orators . There is also ...
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... remarked on this conduct at table with great severity , not knowing that Baillie was present as one of the guests . The captain was delighted with what he heard ; and learning that his volunteer advocate was a young law- yer , as yet ...
... remarked on this conduct at table with great severity , not knowing that Baillie was present as one of the guests . The captain was delighted with what he heard ; and learning that his volunteer advocate was a young law- yer , as yet ...
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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