The Science and Art of Elocution and Oratory: Containing Specimens of the Eloquence of the Pulpit, the Bar, the Stage, the Legislative Hall, and the Battlefield |
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... , and others of literary and classical taste , the author submits this book , and is cheered with the hope of their kind consideration and generous approval THE AUTHOR . CONTENTS . PART I - THEORETIC AND SCIENTIFIC . Salutatory iv PREFACE .
... , and others of literary and classical taste , the author submits this book , and is cheered with the hope of their kind consideration and generous approval THE AUTHOR . CONTENTS . PART I - THEORETIC AND SCIENTIFIC . Salutatory iv PREFACE .
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... Hope Triumphant in Death , · The Chamber of Sickness , ( two voices , ) Eulogy on South Carolina , Eulogy on Massachusetts , The Vulture and the Captive Infant , Marco Bozzaris , Character of Clay , Rienzi's Address to the Men of Rome ...
... Hope Triumphant in Death , · The Chamber of Sickness , ( two voices , ) Eulogy on South Carolina , Eulogy on Massachusetts , The Vulture and the Captive Infant , Marco Bozzaris , Character of Clay , Rienzi's Address to the Men of Rome ...
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... hope . 6. Come back , come back , he cried in grief Across this stormy water ; And I'll forgive your Highland chief : - My daughter 1 ( ) , my daughter ! CLIMAX . 1. Climax in Elocution implies an increase or THEORETIC AND SCIENTIFIC ...
... hope . 6. Come back , come back , he cried in grief Across this stormy water ; And I'll forgive your Highland chief : - My daughter 1 ( ) , my daughter ! CLIMAX . 1. Climax in Elocution implies an increase or THEORETIC AND SCIENTIFIC ...
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... hope , this fond desire , This longing after immortality ? ' Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter , And intimates eternity to man . Eternity ! thou pleasing , dreadful thought ! 6. Triumph of Virtue . As some tall cliff that ...
... hope , this fond desire , This longing after immortality ? ' Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter , And intimates eternity to man . Eternity ! thou pleasing , dreadful thought ! 6. Triumph of Virtue . As some tall cliff that ...
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... hope of peace and reconciliation . There is no longer any room for hope . If we wish to be free ; if we mean to preserve , inviolate , those in- estimable privileges for which we have been so long contending ; if we mean not basely to ...
... hope of peace and reconciliation . There is no longer any room for hope . If we wish to be free ; if we mean to preserve , inviolate , those in- estimable privileges for which we have been so long contending ; if we mean not basely to ...
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Page 192 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it: I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance: for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbour a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Page 149 - Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged ; their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, peace; but there is no peace.
Page 148 - Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
Page 132 - She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty; and she glides Into his darker musings with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house...
Page 226 - Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain ; And, when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake...
Page 134 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan that moves To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 97 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Page 45 - I ask gentlemen, sir, What means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies?
Page 134 - Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His...
Page 191 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat, if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not.