Elements of RhetoricHarper & Brothers, 1877 - 327 pages |
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... opposite principles , will be more likely to pass censures , as it were in self - defence , than laboriously to unlearn what they have perhaps laboriously acquired , and to set out afresh on a new system But I am encouraged partly by ...
... opposite principles , will be more likely to pass censures , as it were in self - defence , than laboriously to unlearn what they have perhaps laboriously acquired , and to set out afresh on a new system But I am encouraged partly by ...
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... opposite side ; -- and because truth , having an intrinsic superiority over falsehood , may be expected to prevail when the skill of the contending parties is equal ; which will be the more likely to take place , the more widely such ...
... opposite side ; -- and because truth , having an intrinsic superiority over falsehood , may be expected to prevail when the skill of the contending parties is equal ; which will be the more likely to take place , the more widely such ...
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... opposite mode of teaching . But it should be remembered that the com- positions of boys must be puerile , in one way or the other : and to a person of unsophisticated and sound taste , the truly contemptible kind of puerility would be ...
... opposite mode of teaching . But it should be remembered that the com- positions of boys must be puerile , in one way or the other : and to a person of unsophisticated and sound taste , the truly contemptible kind of puerility would be ...
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... opposite . 66 Although however I am convinced that an early - ac- quired habit of empty fluency is adverse to a man's suc- cess as an orator , I will not undertake to say , that , as an orator , his attaining the very highest degree of ...
... opposite . 66 Although however I am convinced that an early - ac- quired habit of empty fluency is adverse to a man's suc- cess as an orator , I will not undertake to say , that , as an orator , his attaining the very highest degree of ...
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... opposite scale . Hence it is that so many writers , in investigating the Cause to which any fact or phenomenon is to be attributed , have assigned that which is not a Cause , but only a Proof that the fact is so ; and have thus been led ...
... opposite scale . Hence it is that so many writers , in investigating the Cause to which any fact or phenomenon is to be attributed , have assigned that which is not a Cause , but only a Proof that the fact is so ; and have thus been led ...
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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.