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... produce an influence upon opinion , or to justify the speaker's own belief . All other objects must be subservient to those then . We have to con- sider how best to represent the various and competing forms of a delicate and complicated ...
... produce an influence upon opinion , or to justify the speaker's own belief . All other objects must be subservient to those then . We have to con- sider how best to represent the various and competing forms of a delicate and complicated ...
Page xii
... produce upon minds prepared for it . But , of course , a great part of the orator's work consists in the process of preparation . To remove prejudice may be quite as important as to answer reasoning , and requires qualities of a ...
... produce upon minds prepared for it . But , of course , a great part of the orator's work consists in the process of preparation . To remove prejudice may be quite as important as to answer reasoning , and requires qualities of a ...
Page xiv
... produced a corresponding belief in his hearers . On the whole , however , it may be said with as near an approach to certainty as the subject admits , that the most successful speeches have been those which combined logic with rhetoric ...
... produced a corresponding belief in his hearers . On the whole , however , it may be said with as near an approach to certainty as the subject admits , that the most successful speeches have been those which combined logic with rhetoric ...
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... upon this Government , " or " which these times produce . And I hope I gave them fair and honest . answers . And if it shall be found to be the Civil Magistrate's real endeavour to keep all professing Christians in this relation CROMWELL ...
... upon this Government , " or " which these times produce . And I hope I gave them fair and honest . answers . And if it shall be found to be the Civil Magistrate's real endeavour to keep all professing Christians in this relation CROMWELL ...
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... produce any effect except admiration for his rhetorical skill . Walpole's speeches convinced . nothing more . The Peerage Bill , House of Commons , Dec. 8th , 17191 AMONG the Romans , the temple of fame was placed behind the temple of ...
... produce any effect except admiration for his rhetorical skill . Walpole's speeches convinced . nothing more . The Peerage Bill , House of Commons , Dec. 8th , 17191 AMONG the Romans , the temple of fame was placed behind the temple of ...
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Page 333 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's. assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Page 333 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphans, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Page 30 - Mercy and truth are met together ; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven. Yea, the Lord shall give that which is good ; and our land shall yield her increase. Righteousness shall go before him.; and shall set us -in the way of his steps.
Page 113 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship Freedom, they will turn their faces toward you.* The more they multiply, the more friends you will have. The more ardently they love liberty, the more perfect will be their obedience.
Page 30 - I will hear what God the Lord will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.
Page 332 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding.
Page 333 - If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a Living God always ascribe to Him?
Page 62 - The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war ; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations ; not peace to arise out of universal discord, fomented, from principle, in all parts of the empire ; not peace to depend on the juridical determination of perplexing questions, or the precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex government. It is simple peace ; sought in its natural course and in its ordinary haunts. It is peace sought in the spirit...
Page 115 - ... conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race. Let us get an American revenue as we have got an American empire. English privileges have made it all that it is; English privileges alone will make it all it can be.
Page 70 - America, gentlemen say, is a noble object. It is an object well worth fighting for. Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the best way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this respect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions and their habits. Those who understand the military art will of course have some predilection for it. Those who wield the thunder of the state may have more confidence in the efficacy of arms. But I confess, possibly for want of this knowledge, my opinion is much...