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Without imagination , the speaker sinks to the mere dry arguer , the matter - of - fact man , the calculator , or syllogist , or sophist ; the dealer in figures ; the compiler of facts ; the mason , but not the architect of the pile ...
Without imagination , the speaker sinks to the mere dry arguer , the matter - of - fact man , the calculator , or syllogist , or sophist ; the dealer in figures ; the compiler of facts ; the mason , but not the architect of the pile ...
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... and prevalent mistake among our critics on this judgment . They seem to think that the taste of the individual is the standard by which the value of oratory should be decided . We do not consider oratory a mere matter of taste : it ...
... and prevalent mistake among our critics on this judgment . They seem to think that the taste of the individual is the standard by which the value of oratory should be decided . We do not consider oratory a mere matter of taste : it ...
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It may be matter of taste , but it certainly would not be matter of judgment or prudence in Mr. Phillips to depart from a course which has proved most successful , and xii PREFACE .
It may be matter of taste , but it certainly would not be matter of judgment or prudence in Mr. Phillips to depart from a course which has proved most successful , and xii PREFACE .
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Nor would he stand alone , no matter what might be the measure of his disgrace , or the degree of his dereliction . You well know there are many of your own community who would leave him at the distance - post .
Nor would he stand alone , no matter what might be the measure of his disgrace , or the degree of his dereliction . You well know there are many of your own community who would leave him at the distance - post .
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... but , believe me , no matter where I may be driven by the whim of my destiny , you shall find me one in whom change of place shall create no change of principle ; one whose memory must perish ere he forgets his country ; whose heart ...
... but , believe me , no matter where I may be driven by the whim of my destiny , you shall find me one in whom change of place shall create no change of principle ; one whose memory must perish ere he forgets his country ; whose heart ...
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Page 109 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar; Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pined alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown...
Page 153 - ... her, driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, and, in clear dream and solemn vision, tell her of things that no gross ear can hear; till oft converse with heavenly habitants begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, the unpolluted temple of the mind, and turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, till all be made immortal.
Page 153 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear...
Page 121 - The glorious, pious and immortal memory of the great and good King William — not forgetting Oliver Cromwell, who assisted in redeeming us from Popery, slavery, arbitrary power, brass money and wooden shoes.
Page 203 - The victorious veteran glittered with his gains; and the capital, gorgeous with the spoils of art, became the miniature metropolis of the universe.
Page 43 - But the last glorious act crowns his career, and banishes all hesitation. Who, like Washington, after having emancipated an hemisphere, resigned its crown, and preferred the retirement of domestic life to the adoration of a land he might be almost said to have created! " How shall we rank thee upon Glory's page, Thou more than soldier and just less than sage ; All thou hast been reflects less fame on thee, Far less than all thou hast forborne to be...
Page 201 - Flung into life in the midst of a revolution that quickened every energy of a people who acknowledged no superior, he commenced his course a stranger by birth, and a scholar by charity! With no friend but his sword, and no fortune but his talents, he rushed into the lists where rank and wealth and genius had arrayed themselves; and competition fled from him as from the glance of destiny. He knew no motive...
Page 43 - Grecian artist, to exhibit in one glow of associated beauty, the pride of every model, and the perfection of every master. As a General, he marshalled the • i peasant into a veteran, and supplied by discipline the absence of experience ; as a statesman, he enlarged the policy of the cabinet into the most comprehensive system of general advantage ; and such was the wisdom of his views, and the philosophy of his counsels, that to the soldier and the statesman he almost added the character of the...
Page 39 - World may have interred all the pride of its power, and all the pomp of its civilization, human nature may not find its destined renovation in the New ? For myself, I have no doubt of it.
Page 200 - Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon .the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapt in the solitude of his own originality. A mind, bold, independent, and decisive — a will, despotic in its dictates — an energy that distanced expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of this extraordinary...
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| Title | The Speeches...delivered at the Bar, and on Various Public Occasions in Ireland and England |
| Author | Charles Phillips |
| Publisher | Longman, 1817 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 20 Dec 2007 |
| Length | 213 pages |
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