Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University, Volume 2Hilliard and Metcalf, 1810 - Oratory |
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... feelings . Sixthly , there are many arguments feeble in themselves , but which may derive strength from their num- bers . These require accumulation , rather than division . And lastly , in the division of judicial causes there must be ...
... feelings . Sixthly , there are many arguments feeble in themselves , but which may derive strength from their num- bers . These require accumulation , rather than division . And lastly , in the division of judicial causes there must be ...
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... feelings more solid than a sophistical speculation on law and govern . Such was our situation ; and such a satis- faction was necessary to prevent recourse to arms ; it was necessary towards laying them down ; it will be necessary to ...
... feelings more solid than a sophistical speculation on law and govern . Such was our situation ; and such a satis- faction was necessary to prevent recourse to arms ; it was necessary towards laying them down ; it will be necessary to ...
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... feelings , your reason , and your active powers from the post you are defend- ing to your own person . To a speaker , who has not acquired a perfect control over himself , it is a dangerous snare ; but it is almost infallibly the ...
... feelings , your reason , and your active powers from the post you are defend- ing to your own person . To a speaker , who has not acquired a perfect control over himself , it is a dangerous snare ; but it is almost infallibly the ...
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... feeling and all the unwary simplicity of a soldier , fell into the snare , thus cun- ningly laid to entrap him ; abandoned in a great measure the post , in support of which he had first taken arms , and wasted all the remnant of his ...
... feeling and all the unwary simplicity of a soldier , fell into the snare , thus cun- ningly laid to entrap him ; abandoned in a great measure the post , in support of which he had first taken arms , and wasted all the remnant of his ...
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... feelings . Nothing is so sure to blind us to the real validity of the reasons alledged against us , as our passions . It is so much easier to despise , than to answer an opponent's argument , that wherever we can indulge our contempt ...
... feelings . Nothing is so sure to blind us to the real validity of the reasons alledged against us , as our passions . It is so much easier to despise , than to answer an opponent's argument , that wherever we can indulge our contempt ...
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