Elements of RhetoricHarper & Brothers, 1877 - 327 pages |
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... to a writer , and still more , to a speaker , to point out and exhibit , in their full strength , the delicate distincti as an which truth sometimes depends . the very purpose of it ; -that a system of 14 ELEMENTS OF RHETORIC .
... to a writer , and still more , to a speaker , to point out and exhibit , in their full strength , the delicate distincti as an which truth sometimes depends . the very purpose of it ; -that a system of 14 ELEMENTS OF RHETORIC .
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... sometimes the two guishing combined , and sometimes opposed . There is kinds of se no more fruitful source of confusion of quence . thought than that ambiguity of the language employed en these subjects , which tends to confound ...
... sometimes the two guishing combined , and sometimes opposed . There is kinds of se no more fruitful source of confusion of quence . thought than that ambiguity of the language employed en these subjects , which tends to confound ...
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... Sometimes , however , an adversary will be compelled distinctly to admit something that makes against him , in order to contest some other point . Thus , the testi mony of the Evangelists , that the miracles of Jesus were acknowledged ...
... Sometimes , however , an adversary will be compelled distinctly to admit something that makes against him , in order to contest some other point . Thus , the testi mony of the Evangelists , that the miracles of Jesus were acknowledged ...
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... sometimes add to the credibility of those who bear witness to it . * And again , any thing which , however likely to take place , would not have been likely , otherwise , to enter the mind of those parti . cular persons who attest it ...
... sometimes add to the credibility of those who bear witness to it . * And again , any thing which , however likely to take place , would not have been likely , otherwise , to enter the mind of those parti . cular persons who attest it ...
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... sometimes even amounting to moral certainty , from a combination of data which singly would have had little or no weight . E. G. If any one out of a hundred men throw a stone which strikes a certain object , * there is but a slight ...
... sometimes even amounting to moral certainty , from a combination of data which singly would have had little or no weight . E. G. If any one out of a hundred men throw a stone which strikes a certain object , * there is but a slight ...
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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.