The History of Oratory from the Age of Pericles to the Present TimeScott, Foresman, 1895 - 440 страница |
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... living in a later age . Differing mo- tives and methods of address . Contrasting styles . Rapidity of movement . Demands of modern taste . Values of con- cise and copious expression . Roman taste pleased by stately splendor . Cicero's ...
... living in a later age . Differing mo- tives and methods of address . Contrasting styles . Rapidity of movement . Demands of modern taste . Values of con- cise and copious expression . Roman taste pleased by stately splendor . Cicero's ...
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... living model in their memory . Neither is it prom- ising ground to look for eloquence in the philosophic prose which next follows ; still it is in the beginning of a treatise of Diogenes of Apollonia that the following ท rhetorical ...
... living model in their memory . Neither is it prom- ising ground to look for eloquence in the philosophic prose which next follows ; still it is in the beginning of a treatise of Diogenes of Apollonia that the following ท rhetorical ...
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... living . The Proem , as the word signifies , is an opening strain , giving the pitch of the piece . The Narration was a plain statement of facts and circumstances ; the Argu- ment was a fair induction from those facts . Subsidiary ...
... living . The Proem , as the word signifies , is an opening strain , giving the pitch of the piece . The Narration was a plain statement of facts and circumstances ; the Argu- ment was a fair induction from those facts . Subsidiary ...
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... living nearer the age when literary history began to be extensively written , and was himself the subject of ten different biographies . The son of a prosperous manufacturer , he did not lack the advantages of wealth and education . At ...
... living nearer the age when literary history began to be extensively written , and was himself the subject of ten different biographies . The son of a prosperous manufacturer , he did not lack the advantages of wealth and education . At ...
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... living under different skies , in a distant age and a differing civilization ; but as the standards of true art are restored , or exemplified , it will be seen that Demosthenes has approached nearest to perfection in the high art of ...
... living under different skies , in a distant age and a differing civilization ; but as the standards of true art are restored , or exemplified , it will be seen that Demosthenes has approached nearest to perfection in the high art of ...
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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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