The History of Oratory from the Age of Pericles to the Present TimeScott, Foresman, 1895 - 440 страница |
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... language , literature , and philos- ophy , in fifth and sixth centuries B. C .; and finally by a democratic government in Syracuse . Practical character of early forensic oratory . In theory every citizen his own advocate . Leads to ...
... language , literature , and philos- ophy , in fifth and sixth centuries B. C .; and finally by a democratic government in Syracuse . Practical character of early forensic oratory . In theory every citizen his own advocate . Leads to ...
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... language . Persistence of the Latin . Prose composition favored by the Roman character . A rugged speech natural to the Latin race . A sturdy and martial oratory precedes other forms of literature . Which in turn antedate the maturity ...
... language . Persistence of the Latin . Prose composition favored by the Roman character . A rugged speech natural to the Latin race . A sturdy and martial oratory precedes other forms of literature . Which in turn antedate the maturity ...
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... language from strong feeling . His illustrations . Fair- ness toward an adversary . His most finished speech . His ablest . XXIV . - COLONIAL ORATORY . Allied to that of Great Britain . Interest in parliamentary dis- cussion . Its ...
... language from strong feeling . His illustrations . Fair- ness toward an adversary . His most finished speech . His ablest . XXIV . - COLONIAL ORATORY . Allied to that of Great Britain . Interest in parliamentary dis- cussion . Its ...
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... language was eminently adapted to the expression of thought and feeling . The perfection of structure , which it had acquired in the tenth century before the Christian era , implies a long period of previous culture , which was ...
... language was eminently adapted to the expression of thought and feeling . The perfection of structure , which it had acquired in the tenth century before the Christian era , implies a long period of previous culture , which was ...
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... language of the people , borrowing words from far antiquity . While dispensing with figures of language he uses largely those figures of thought which give life to a speech - irony , indignant question , and others which belong to what ...
... language of the people , borrowing words from far antiquity . While dispensing with figures of language he uses largely those figures of thought which give life to a speech - irony , indignant question , and others which belong to what ...
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American ancient Andocides appeared argument Aristotle assembly Athens Attic style audience became called cause century character Charles Sumner church Cicero classic colonies contemporaries court criticism debate deliberative delivered Demosthenes diction discourse eloquence eminent emotions England expression famous Faneuil Hall father followed force forensic freedom Gorgias Greece Greek Harrison Gray Otis hearers heart Herodotus human illustration inspiration interest Isæus Isocrates language later Latin learning liberty literary literature living logic Lord Lysias manner Massillon ment mind nation natural ness occasion orator oratory patriotism period persuasion philosophy plain poetry political practical preacher preaching principles prose pulpit quence Quintilian reason rhetoric rhetorician Roman Rufus Choate sense sentences sentiments sermon sion slavery speaker speaking speech spirit strong style success Sumner Theodectes things thought Thucydides tion truth uttered voice Webster Wendell Phillips words writing
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