Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, 第 1 巻Press of M. Carey, March 19, 1793 |
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... importance and advantages of fuch studies , and the rank they are entitled to poffefs in academi- cal education * . I am under no temptation , for this purpose , of extolling their importance at the ex- penfe of any other department of ...
... importance and advantages of fuch studies , and the rank they are entitled to poffefs in academi- cal education * . I am under no temptation , for this purpose , of extolling their importance at the ex- penfe of any other department of ...
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... importance from the taste and manners of the prefent age . It is an age wherein improvements , in every part of sci- ence , have been profecuted with ardour . To all the liberal arts much attention has been paid ; and to none more than ...
... importance from the taste and manners of the prefent age . It is an age wherein improvements , in every part of sci- ence , have been profecuted with ardour . To all the liberal arts much attention has been paid ; and to none more than ...
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... importance from the use to which they may be applied in furnishing materials for those fashiona- ble topics of difcourfe , and thereby enabling us to fupport a proper rank in focial life . But I fhould be forry if we could not reft the ...
... importance from the use to which they may be applied in furnishing materials for those fashiona- ble topics of difcourfe , and thereby enabling us to fupport a proper rank in focial life . But I fhould be forry if we could not reft the ...
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... importance to remember it . Tafte confifts in the power of judging genius , in the power of executing . One may have a confiderable degree of tafte in poetry , eloquence , or any of the fine arts , who has little or hardly any genius ...
... importance to remember it . Tafte confifts in the power of judging genius , in the power of executing . One may have a confiderable degree of tafte in poetry , eloquence , or any of the fine arts , who has little or hardly any genius ...
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... importance to young people ; in leading them to examine with care , and to purfue with ardour , the current and point- ing of nature towards thofe exertions of genius in which they are moft likely to excel . A genius for any of the fine ...
... importance to young people ; in leading them to examine with care , and to purfue with ardour , the current and point- ing of nature towards thofe exertions of genius in which they are moft likely to excel . A genius for any of the fine ...
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309 ページ - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
309 ページ - Art thou also become weak as we ? art thou become like unto us? Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
64 ページ - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
56 ページ - In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: He heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
389 ページ - Delightful scenes, whether in nature, painting, or poetry, have a kindly influence on the body as well as the mind ; and not only serve to clear and brighten the imagination, but are able to disperse grief and melancholy, and to set the animal spirits in pleasing and agreeable motions.
287 ページ - Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, So that all they which pass by the way do pluck her ? The boar out of the wood doth waste it, < And the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
403 ページ - There is a second kind of beauty that we find in the several products of art and nature, which does not work in the imagination with that warmth and violence as the beauty that appears in our proper species, but is apt however to raise in us a secret delight, and a kind of fondness for the places or objects in which we discover it.
58 ページ - That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
181 ページ - Entire, complete. — A thing is entire, by wanting none of its parts ; complete, by wanting none of the appendages that belong to it. A man may have an entire house to himself, and yet not have one complete apartment.