The North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, Volume 4Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge Wells and Lilly., 1965 Vols. 277-230, no. 2 include Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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Page 379
... orator . We apprehend that the fanatick , with his holy wildness , approaches much nearer to good oratory , than most of our sensible speakers . One would think we had come to disdain ornament and manner when the subject is vast ; that ...
... orator . We apprehend that the fanatick , with his holy wildness , approaches much nearer to good oratory , than most of our sensible speakers . One would think we had come to disdain ornament and manner when the subject is vast ; that ...
Page 385
... oratory from its abuses . We shall not enter into the inquiry how far oratory is an art . The ancients had an easy way of resolving it into discipline , as they did poetry into inspiration or genius . We believe that the art , ( for ...
... oratory from its abuses . We shall not enter into the inquiry how far oratory is an art . The ancients had an easy way of resolving it into discipline , as they did poetry into inspiration or genius . We believe that the art , ( for ...
Page 397
... oratorical skill , ' being exclusively conversant with truths , in the developement of which , so far as consists in the exercise ... orator . ' Imagine a great mathematician demonstrating such a theorem , in the presence of an audience ...
... oratorical skill , ' being exclusively conversant with truths , in the developement of which , so far as consists in the exercise ... orator . ' Imagine a great mathematician demonstrating such a theorem , in the presence of an audience ...
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in Rhyme | 68 |
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