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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... the tallest pine , Hewn on Norwegian hills , to be the mast Of some great admiral , were but a wand He walk'd with . Observe now that the object , first so circumstantial- ly magnified , is the moon . The object , intended to be ...
... the tallest pine , Hewn on Norwegian hills , to be the mast Of some great admiral , were but a wand He walk'd with . Observe now that the object , first so circumstantial- ly magnified , is the moon . The object , intended to be ...
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... the tallest pine , hewn on Norwegian hills , to be the mast of some great admiral ; and this object , thus extended to the utmost bounds of nature , is instantly contract- ed to nothing ; a mere wand , in comparison with satan's spear ...
... the tallest pine , hewn on Norwegian hills , to be the mast of some great admiral ; and this object , thus extended to the utmost bounds of nature , is instantly contract- ed to nothing ; a mere wand , in comparison with satan's spear ...
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