The Debater: a New Theory of the Art of Speaking: Being a Series of Complete Debates, Outlines of Debates, and Questions for DiscussionLongman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1850 - 304 страница |
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... my own ? Are Cin- cinnatus , Leonidas , Washington , men who once lived on earth , or are they only 66 -false creations Proceeding from my heat - oppressed brain ? " The soldier , Sir , has not been fairly dealt 16 THE DEBATER .
... my own ? Are Cin- cinnatus , Leonidas , Washington , men who once lived on earth , or are they only 66 -false creations Proceeding from my heat - oppressed brain ? " The soldier , Sir , has not been fairly dealt 16 THE DEBATER .
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... lived were wicked and tyrannical , I should " Leave him to Heaven , - And to the thorns that in his breast would lodge , To prick and sting him : " - knowing full well that he would surely reap his reward , and that justice would one ...
... lived were wicked and tyrannical , I should " Leave him to Heaven , - And to the thorns that in his breast would lodge , To prick and sting him : " - knowing full well that he would surely reap his reward , and that justice would one ...
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... lived a perfectly moral life for all that . St. Paul calls himself " the chief of sinners , " and yet says he " kept the law blameless . " Sir , both the apostle and the illustrious subject of our criticism speak of that inner depravity ...
... lived a perfectly moral life for all that . St. Paul calls himself " the chief of sinners , " and yet says he " kept the law blameless . " Sir , both the apostle and the illustrious subject of our criticism speak of that inner depravity ...
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... lived devoutly before God and man ; no man ever accused him of injustice , im- piety or irreligion ; and yet we are told that he was a hypocrite ! Does his daily household prayer look like hypocrisy ? Does his devout preaching to his ...
... lived devoutly before God and man ; no man ever accused him of injustice , im- piety or irreligion ; and yet we are told that he was a hypocrite ! Does his daily household prayer look like hypocrisy ? Does his devout preaching to his ...
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... lived , and for which they would fight and die ; we must see the bigotry of power on the one side , and the fanaticism of outraged conscience on the other : and above all things we must place ourselves in the centre of a period when in ...
... lived , and for which they would fight and die ; we must see the bigotry of power on the one side , and the fanaticism of outraged conscience on the other : and above all things we must place ourselves in the centre of a period when in ...
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Страница 172 - For softness she and sweet attractive grace, He for God only, she for God in him: His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad...
Страница 183 - Yea, even that which Mischief meant most harm Shall in the happy trial prove most glory. But evil on itself shall back recoil, And mix no more with goodness...
Страница 182 - O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
Страница 173 - To speak; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers: Attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth: at last Words, interwove with sighs, found out their way.
Страница 182 - All murdered : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be feared, and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and humoured thus, Comes at the last and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and — farewell king! Cover your heads...
Страница 180 - Their dread commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Страница 19 - Wha will be a traitor knave? Wha can fill a coward's grave? Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn and flee! Wha, for Scotland's King and Law, Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Free-man stand, or Free-man fa', Let him follow me!
Страница 209 - By his admirable contrivance, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility, — for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which that power can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it.
Страница 182 - tis too late. Lucio. You are too cold. [To Isabella. Isab. Too late? why, no; I, that do speak a word, May call it back again: Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Страница 19 - Let him follow me! By oppression's woes and pains ! By your sons in servile chains ! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free ! Lay the proud usurpers low ! Tyrants fall in every foe!