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... . - Eloquence of the Senate . Of the Bar . LETTER XVIII . Rise and progress of Eloquence 239 . 254 LETTER XIX . Eloquence of the Pulpit 274 : Works lately published by the same Author . POPULAR LECTURES CONTENTS , vii.
... . - Eloquence of the Senate . Of the Bar . LETTER XVIII . Rise and progress of Eloquence 239 . 254 LETTER XIX . Eloquence of the Pulpit 274 : Works lately published by the same Author . POPULAR LECTURES CONTENTS , vii.
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... senator of our own times , has often employed this stroke of humour with infinite effect , appearing sud- dently to correct himself , when he would in- sinuate something in an indirect manner . Critics are not entirely agreed in ...
... senator of our own times , has often employed this stroke of humour with infinite effect , appearing sud- dently to correct himself , when he would in- sinuate something in an indirect manner . Critics are not entirely agreed in ...
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... senate , that the purity of his reign might not be stained by the blood even of a guilty senator . " - GIBBON . The arrangement would be more perfect , " by the blood of even a guilty senator . " " He atoned for the mur- der of an ...
... senate , that the purity of his reign might not be stained by the blood even of a guilty senator . " - GIBBON . The arrangement would be more perfect , " by the blood of even a guilty senator . " " He atoned for the mur- der of an ...
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... senate , the bar , and the pulpit ; but also much of controversy , political pamphlets , and every thing that assumes a declamatory form . The letters of Junius , though under the epistolary title , may be classed as political de ...
... senate , the bar , and the pulpit ; but also much of controversy , political pamphlets , and every thing that assumes a declamatory form . The letters of Junius , though under the epistolary title , may be classed as political de ...
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... Senate . Of the Bar . MY DEAR JOHN , ALL orations may be arranged under two di- visions . Ist . Those which are precomposed , and delivered either from memory , or read aloud to the audience ; and 2dly , those which are spoken on the ...
... Senate . Of the Bar . MY DEAR JOHN , ALL orations may be arranged under two di- visions . Ist . Those which are precomposed , and delivered either from memory , or read aloud to the audience ; and 2dly , those which are spoken on the ...
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