Elements of RhetoricHarper & Brothers, 1877 - 327 pages |
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... experience of the past , ) that no legal penalties will , in fact , be incurred by temperate , decent , argumentative maintainers even of the most er- roneous opinions . I have only to add my acknowledgments to those friends for whose ...
... experience of the past , ) that no legal penalties will , in fact , be incurred by temperate , decent , argumentative maintainers even of the most er- roneous opinions . I have only to add my acknowledgments to those friends for whose ...
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... experience , are not often traced up by him to first principles ; and we are frequently left to guess , not only on what basis his rules are grounded , but in what cases they are applicable . Of this latter defect a remark- able ...
... experience , are not often traced up by him to first principles ; and we are frequently left to guess , not only on what basis his rules are grounded , but in what cases they are applicable . Of this latter defect a remark- able ...
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... experience would enable them to decide very differently ; and it certainly seems to be in a great degree practically adopted . Most persons , if not left entirely to the disposal of chance , in respect of this branch of education , are ...
... experience would enable them to decide very differently ; and it certainly seems to be in a great degree practically adopted . Most persons , if not left entirely to the disposal of chance , in respect of this branch of education , are ...
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... Experience so plainly evinces , what indeed we might naturally be led antece . dently to conjecture , that a right judgment on any sub- ject is not necessarily accompanied by skill in effecting conviction - nor the ability to discover ...
... Experience so plainly evinces , what indeed we might naturally be led antece . dently to conjecture , that a right judgment on any sub- ject is not necessarily accompanied by skill in effecting conviction - nor the ability to discover ...
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... experience shows that it is by no means uncommon for a young or ill - instructed wri ter to content himself with such a vague and indistinct view of the point he is to aim at , that the whole train of his reasoning is in consequence ...
... experience shows that it is by no means uncommon for a young or ill - instructed wri ter to content himself with such a vague and indistinct view of the point he is to aim at , that the whole train of his reasoning is in consequence ...
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Page 323 - And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.
Page 342 - Scripture moveth us in sundry places to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness ; and that we should not dissemble nor cloke them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father; but confess them with an humble, lowly, penitent, and obedient heart; to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the same, by his infinite goodness and mercy.
Page 90 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Page 129 - IF you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of corn ; and if (instead of each picking where and what it liked, taking just as much as it wanted, and no more) you should see ninety-nine of them gathering all they got, into a heap ; reserving nothing for themselves, but the chaff and the refuse ; keeping this heap for one, and that the weakest, perhaps worst...
Page 342 - God; yet ought we most chiefly so to do, when we assemble and meet together to render thanks for the great benefits that we have received at his hands, to set forth his most worthy praise, to hear his most holy Word, and to ask those things which are requisite and necessary, as well for the body as the soul.
Page 217 - ... we have consecrated the state, that no man should approach to look into its defects or corruptions but with due caution; that he should never dream of beginning its reformation by its subversion; that he should approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe, and trembling solicitude.
Page 228 - We came to our journey's end, at last, with no small difficulty, after much fatigue, through deep roads, and bad weather.
Page 99 - There goes many a ship to sea, with many hundred souls in one ship, whose weal and woe is common, and is a true picture of a commonwealth, or a human combination or society. It hath fallen out sometimes, that both papists and protestants, Jews and Turks, may be embarked in one ship; upon which supposal I affirm, that all the liberty of conscience, that ever I pleaded for, turns upon these two hinges— that none of the papists, protestants...
Page 217 - By this wise prejudice we are taught to look with horror on those children of their country who are prompt rashly to hack that aged parent in pieces, and put him into the kettle of magicians, in hopes that by their poisonous weeds, and wild incantations, they may regenerate the paternal constitution, and renovate their father's life.
Page 191 - Consider the lilies how they grow : they toil not, they spin not ; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.