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Page 96
... discourse which principally claim our attention , the sense and the expreffion ; or in other words , the thought , and the fymbol by which it is communicated . These may be faid to constitute the foul and the body of an oration , or ...
... discourse which principally claim our attention , the sense and the expreffion ; or in other words , the thought , and the fymbol by which it is communicated . These may be faid to constitute the foul and the body of an oration , or ...
Page 99
... discourse , as a fubordinate end conducive to the advance- ment of the principal . If then it is the bufinefs of logic to evince the truth , to convince an auditory , which is the province of eloquence , is but a particular application ...
... discourse , as a fubordinate end conducive to the advance- ment of the principal . If then it is the bufinefs of logic to evince the truth , to convince an auditory , which is the province of eloquence , is but a particular application ...
Page 221
... discourse . Self is the centre here , which hath a fimilar power in the ideal world , to that of the fun in the material world , in communicating both light and heat to whatever is within the fphere of its activity , and in a greater or ...
... discourse . Self is the centre here , which hath a fimilar power in the ideal world , to that of the fun in the material world , in communicating both light and heat to whatever is within the fphere of its activity , and in a greater or ...
Page 249
... discourse , I shall range , for or- der's fake , the remarks I intend to lay before the reader . SECTION I. In regard to the speaker . THE firft confideration is that of the character to be fuftained by the fpeaker . It was re- marked ...
... discourse , I shall range , for or- der's fake , the remarks I intend to lay before the reader . SECTION I. In regard to the speaker . THE firft confideration is that of the character to be fuftained by the fpeaker . It was re- marked ...
Page 250
... discourses are addreffed . As to the firft , arifing from the nature of the profeffion , it will not admit a que- ftion , that the preacher hath in this refpect . the most difficult task ; inafmuch as he hath a character to fupport ...
... discourses are addreffed . As to the firft , arifing from the nature of the profeffion , it will not admit a que- ftion , that the preacher hath in this refpect . the most difficult task ; inafmuch as he hath a character to fupport ...
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