Part 100 (1/2)
”Were Demosthenes's Philippics spoken in a British assembly, in a similar conjuncture of affairs, they would convince and persuade at this day The rapid style, the veheer, boldness, freedom, which perpetually animate them, would render their success infallible over any modern assembly I question whether the same can be said of Cicero's orations; whose eloquence, however beautiful, and however well suited to the Roman taste, yet borders oftener on declamation, and is more remote from the manner in whichexpect to hear real business and causes of importance treated”--_Blair's Rhet_, p 248
”In fact, every attempt to present on paper the splendid effects of i up dewdrops, which appear jewels and pearls on the grass, but run to water in the hand; the essence and the eleone”--_Montgonity must be founded on character, not on dress and appearance; so in language the dignity of coht, not from ornament”--_Blair's Rhet_, p 144
”And man, whose heaven-erected face the smiles of love adorn, Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn”
--_Burns_
”Ah wretched lory! and what fates attend”
--_Pope, Iliad_, B xvii, l 231
LESSON III--ADJECTIVES
”Eenerally, if not always, the result of eht”--_Blair's Rhet_, p 120
”Upon this ground, we prefer a siular and well-connected story, to loose and scattered narratives; a catastrophe which is tender and pathetic, to one which leaves us unood taste may well be considered as a power compounded of natural sensibility to beauty, and of i”--_Ib_, p
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”Of all writings, ancient or hest instances of the sublime The descriptions of the Deity, in therandeur of the object, and theit”--_Ib_, p 36
”It is not the authority of any one person, or of a few, be they ever so eminent, that can establish one foreneral practice of good writers and good speakers can do it”--_Priestley's Gram_, p 107
”What other means are there to attract love and esteem so effectual as a virtuous course of life? If a man be just and beneficent, if he be teain the esteem and love of all who know him”--_Kames, El of Crit_, i, 167
”But there are likewise, it must be owned, people in the world, whoe, and not easy to reat coht on every page of our history--the language addressed by every past age of New England to all future ages, is this: Human happiness has no perfect security but freedoe: and neither freedoour or immortal hope, except in the principles of the Christian faith, and in the sanctions of the Christian religion”--_President Quincy_
”For bliss, as thou hast part, to me is bliss; Tedious, unshared with thee, and odious soon”
--_P Lost_, B ix, l 880
LESSON IV--pronOUNS
”There is but one governor whose sight we cannot escape, whose poe cannot resist: a sense of His presence and of duty to Him, will accomplish more than all the laws and penalties which can be devised without it”--_Woodbridge, Lit C_, p 154
”Every voluntary society e who shall be members of their body, and enjoy fellowshi+p with thees”--_Watts_
”Poetry and impassioned eloquence are the only sources fros; and even if in their vehe with the over it”--_Philological Museum_, i, 645