The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending a Diversity of Oratorical Specimens, of the Eloquence of Popular Assemblies, of the Bar, of the Pulpit, &c. Principally Intended for the Use of Schools and Academies. To which are Prefixed a Dissertation on Oratorical Delivery and the Outlines of GestureSidney's Press, for John Babcock & Son, New-Haven, and S. & W.R. Babcock, Charleston, S.C., 1819 - 408 עמודים |
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עמוד 6
... LIVING AUTHORS , it is hoped , will not be displeased that useful and elegant passages have been borrowed of them , since , as they wrote to reform and improve the age , they will perceive at once , that to place their most important in ...
... LIVING AUTHORS , it is hoped , will not be displeased that useful and elegant passages have been borrowed of them , since , as they wrote to reform and improve the age , they will perceive at once , that to place their most important in ...
עמוד
... LIVING AUTHORS , it is hoped , will not be displeased that useful and elegant passages have been borrowed of them , since , as they wrote to reform and improve the age , they will perceive at once , that to place their most important in ...
... LIVING AUTHORS , it is hoped , will not be displeased that useful and elegant passages have been borrowed of them , since , as they wrote to reform and improve the age , they will perceive at once , that to place their most important in ...
עמוד 6
... LIVING AUTHORS , it is hoped , will not be displeased that useful and elegant passages have been borrowed of them , since , as they wrote to reform and improve the age , they will perceive at once , that to place their most important in ...
... LIVING AUTHORS , it is hoped , will not be displeased that useful and elegant passages have been borrowed of them , since , as they wrote to reform and improve the age , they will perceive at once , that to place their most important in ...
עמוד 85
... living speaker makes an impression on the mind , much stronger than can be made by the perusal of any writing . The tones of the voice , the looks and gesture which accompany discourse , and which no writing can convey , render ...
... living speaker makes an impression on the mind , much stronger than can be made by the perusal of any writing . The tones of the voice , the looks and gesture which accompany discourse , and which no writing can convey , render ...
עמוד 103
... living to animal and trifling ones , debases it both in their degree disqualify it for its genuine good , and consign it over to wretchedness . Whoever would be really happy , must make the dil- igent and regular exercise of his ...
... living to animal and trifling ones , debases it both in their degree disqualify it for its genuine good , and consign it over to wretchedness . Whoever would be really happy , must make the dil- igent and regular exercise of his ...
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Abdallah action admiration affection beauty beheld Black Crows Bozaldab Caliph called Carazan CHAPTER character Christian Cicero circumflex composition conversation countenance death declamation degree delight delivered delivery Demosthenes dignity discourse divine Dolgoath Doric order elevated eloquence emphasis enchanter valley expression eyes feelings fingers united Fisher Ames force friends genius gesture give goddess grace happiness head heart heaven honour human imagination impressive instruction ject John Slater judge kind language liberty look Lord Chatham manner ment mind nature ness never objects occasion opposite imperfections orator oratory passion pauses perceive perfect person pleasure principal public speaking pulpit Quintilian reader reading reason Redruth religion requisite rhetorical rising inflexion Roman senate Sabat Section sense sentence sentiments sion slavery soul speaker sublime talents taste ternately thee thing thou thought tion tone truth variety vice virtue voice whole words zards
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עמוד 223 - And he said unto him, Thy brother is come ; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.
עמוד 221 - The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds : but the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.
עמוד 180 - I send thee ; to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God ; that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified, by faith that is in me.
עמוד 300 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
עמוד 292 - ... security from external danger, a less frequent interruption of their peace by foreign nations; and what is of inestimable value, they must derive from Union an...
עמוד 298 - Their dearest action in the tented field; And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle ; And therefore little shall I grace my cause In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience...
עמוד 301 - With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and...
עמוד 292 - The East, in a like intercourse with the West, already finds, and in the progressive improvement of interior communications by land and water will more and more find, a valuable vent for the commodities which it brings from abroad or manufactures at home.
עמוד 223 - But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet...
עמוד 81 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.