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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... meaning . But besides these subjects , which are not so fashionable in the pulpits of the present age , as they have been in the days of our fathers , an ingenious preacher may al- ways divide his discourse instead of his text ; and as ...
... meaning . But besides these subjects , which are not so fashionable in the pulpits of the present age , as they have been in the days of our fathers , an ingenious preacher may al- ways divide his discourse instead of his text ; and as ...
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... meaning , without any admixture of figurative language . A partition is properly the solution of the proposition into its elements . Its perspicuity must depend altogether upon its precision ; and what can be more absurd than for that ...
... meaning , without any admixture of figurative language . A partition is properly the solution of the proposition into its elements . Its perspicuity must depend altogether upon its precision ; and what can be more absurd than for that ...
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... 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 some charge brought against him Confutation.
... 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 some charge brought against him Confutation.
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... meanings ; first as applicable to the practice of the bar alone ; and secondly as the function of repelling arguments . It is impossible to prescribe any useful rules of eloquence for an orator at the bar in our coun- try , without ...
... meanings ; first as applicable to the practice of the bar alone ; and secondly as the function of repelling arguments . It is impossible to prescribe any useful rules of eloquence for an orator at the bar in our coun- try , without ...
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... meaning of your antagonist evinces a want of candor , which the auditory seldom fail to perceive , and which engages their feelings in his favor . When involv- ed in controversy then , never start against your- self frivolous objections ...
... meaning of your antagonist evinces a want of candor , which the auditory seldom fail to perceive , and which engages their feelings in his favor . When involv- ed in controversy then , never start against your- self frivolous objections ...
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