Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University, Tom 2Hilliard and Metcalf, 1810 |
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... bear division into precisely the same number of parts , but instead of three would require four or five parts . More than this can never be useful or necessary . These parts may again be solved into subdi- visions , which may be ...
... bear division into precisely the same number of parts , but instead of three would require four or five parts . More than this can never be useful or necessary . These parts may again be solved into subdi- visions , which may be ...
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... bears in that hackneyed passage of Shaks . peare . " Trifles , light as air , Are , to the jealous , confirmation strong , As proof of holy writ . " Yet undoubtedly a proposition may be proved by argument , as well as by testimony ; and ...
... bears in that hackneyed passage of Shaks . peare . " Trifles , light as air , Are , to the jealous , confirmation strong , As proof of holy writ . " Yet undoubtedly a proposition may be proved by argument , as well as by testimony ; and ...
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... bears ; and generally meant the answer to an adversary's alle- gations . There is indeed a natural coincidence between the two meanings of the word , since the whole task of a defendant before the tribunals of justice must be to resist ...
... bears ; and generally meant the answer to an adversary's alle- gations . There is indeed a natural coincidence between the two meanings of the word , since the whole task of a defendant before the tribunals of justice must be to resist ...
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... bear against him . It has therefore been remarked , that very moderate abilities are sufficient to qualify an ac- cuser , but that eminence in defensive practice could be obtained only by the brightest endow ments of eloquence ; and ...
... bear against him . It has therefore been remarked , that very moderate abilities are sufficient to qualify an ac- cuser , but that eminence in defensive practice could be obtained only by the brightest endow ments of eloquence ; and ...
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... by the statutes of the legislative authority , or by the precedents of previous adjudications . neither of these should bear with direct and literal If proof upon the cause ( for when they do the 76 . CONFUTATION . [ LECT . XXII .
... by the statutes of the legislative authority , or by the precedents of previous adjudications . neither of these should bear with direct and literal If proof upon the cause ( for when they do the 76 . CONFUTATION . [ LECT . XXII .
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