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...n, and be good and profitable examples to the people. The language of the book is eloquent, the style noble, the thought abundant in both imagery and rhetoric, and the philosophical and moral contents - pithy, fragrant and heart-commanding. (Summary by Euthymius)...

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...akfast (Déjeuner du matin) The Speech About Peace (Le discours sur la paix) Picasso’s Stroll (La promenade de Picasso) Francis Ponge (1899-1988) Rhetoric (Rhétorique) Ripe Blackberries (Les Mûres) The Orange (L’Orange) Vegetation (Végétation) André Frenaud (1907-1993) I Have Never Forgotten You (Je ne t’ai jamais oubliée) Jean Follain (1903-1971) Dog and School...

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...del Castro into power since the Cuban masses needed to support any man whose rhetoric condemned American investments and the American control of their...

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... 51 Thomas de Quincey assuaging balm; eloquent opium! that with thy potent rhetoric stealest away the purposes of wrath; and to the guilty man for one...

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...riginality and force, he delivered to his fellow-men in a book. Eloquence, rhetorical effect, poetry, were alike remote from his design. He did not wr... ...They used to go, it is said, to the other cities of Greece, to inquire out rhetoricians, painters, and musicians; but to Lacedaemon for legislators, m... ...anything of itself. Whoever asked his pupil what he thought of grammar and rhetoric, or of such and such a sentence of Cicero? Our masters stick them,... ... you may then entertain him with the elements of logic, physics, geometry, rhetoric, and the science which he shall then himself most incline to, his ... ...ime to do, I cannot do.”—[Plutarch, Symp., i. I.]—For to make orations and rhetorical disputes in a company met together to laugh and make good cheer,... ...little in their language as the best masters of art in France. He knows no rhetoric, nor how in a preface to bribe the benevolence of the courteous re... ...ANIT ANIT ANITY OF Y OF Y OF Y OF Y OF W W W W WORDS ORDS ORDS ORDS ORDS A RHETORICIAN of times past said, that to make little things appear great was... ...on and Crete, had orators in no very great esteem. Aristo wisely de- fined rhetoric to be “a science to persuade the people;” Socrates and Plato “an a... ...hout, not sub- sidiary and suffragan, and that, peradventure, grammatical, rhetorical, logical examples may elsewhere be more suitably chosen, as also...

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...ers of Literary Theory and Criticism, such as the brilliant discussions of Rhetoric, Style, and Conversation, and the famous On the Knocking at the Ga...

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...On this last point I will translate a remark- able sentence from the Greek rhetorician Aristides, [Note.— Aelius Aristides, Greek by his birth, who fl... ...rection but mere Rome! Rome!” [Note.—This word Romae, (Romé,) on which the rhetorician plays, is the com- 184 Thomas de Quincey mon Greek term for st... ...the shores of the Adriatic.” This is so far from being meant as a piece of rhetoric, that, on the very contrary, the whole purpose is to substitute fo... ..., on the very contrary, the whole purpose is to substitute for a vague and rhetorical expression of the Ro- man grandeur one of a more definite charac... ...ble organization. What they could do, was simply as ministerial agents and rhetoricians to prosecute any general movement, when the national arm had c... ...sh- ments, violating that grandeur of human nature which, not in any vague rhetorical sense, but upon a religious principle of duty, (viz., the script... ...sive butt to the lady’s stinging contumely and the arrowy sleet of her gay rhetoric. The narrow bounds of our 293 Autobiographic Sketches deck made i...

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...Miss Ashton's boarding school. There she meets with many young girls and together they learn not just lessons in German, Logic, Arithmetic, Latin and Rhetoric, but also life lessons of study habits, lady like manners, self control, thoughtfulness of others, truthfulness, and many other character traits. Join these girls of Montrose Academy as they plunge into the adventure...

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...emason, but gave his leisure to reading and writing imitations of old Scottish ballads. His prose is often spoiled by its misplaced and too ambitious rhetoric; his verse also is ornate, and both are full of mannerisms. Some of his songs, however, hold a high place among British lyrics. A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea is one of the best British sea-songs, although written by ...

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...e the decline of the education, both in the family and in the school, of the future orator. In a certain way, it can be considered a miniature art of rhetoric. (Summary by Leni)...

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...s Fabius Quintilianus was of Spanish origin, being born about 35 A.D. at Calagurris. At Rome he met with great success as a teacher and was the first rhetorician to set up a genuine public school and to receive a salary from the State. He left behind him a treatise On the causes of the decadence of Roman oratory (De causis corruptae eloquentiae), some speeches and his magn...

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...had already passed into numerous editions and had been translated into French and German. An English edition soon followed. It influenced teaching of rhetoric during the later sixteenth century. It was put on the Index of forbidden books by the Council in Trent in 1559. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia)...

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...He abused Socrates, but Xenophon, the disciple of Socrates, by his trained rhetoric saved the Ten Thousand. Aristophanes might say that if his warning...

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...at of War, that shows a land brain-sick. When nations gain the pitch where rhetoric Seems reason they are ripe for cannon’s food. Dark looms the issue... ...rink of faith in the brains a full draught Before the oration: beware Lest rhetoric moonily waft Whither horrid activities snare. Rhetoric, juice for ... ...heir issue: stir not that pit T o the game our brutes best play. But with rhetoric loose, can we check man’s brute? Assemblies of men on their legs i... ...ell-worn joke Thou repeatest, to stop conflagration, and write Penance for rhetoric. Strange will it seem, When thou readest that form of thy homage t...

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...in this Argonne Campaign. What we say of him is not dream, nor flourish of rhetoric; but scientific historic fact; as many men, now at this distance, ... ... Law of the Country, Louis Capet was only called Inviolable by a figure of rhetoric; but at bottom was perfectly violable, triable; that he can, and e... ...he Girondin who propounded this Decree;—at bottom perhaps as a flourish of rhetoric. The second influence we speak of had a still poorer ori- gin: in ...

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...learly present to the minds of those who heard him. This, with a certain added colouring of rhetoric and rodomontade, must have been the style of Burn...

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..., but here was also something else that smote any premedi- tated scorn and rhetoric aside. This man was suffering; he was suffering acutely; he was un...

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...r. Great and greater waxes President Danton in his Cordeliers Section; his rhetorical tropes are all ‘gigantic:’ energy flashes from his black brows, ... ... lift a hod of earth on the Altar of the Fatherland. But the flourishes of rhetoric, for it is a gesticulating People; the moral-sublime of those Addr...

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... hu- mility, were clearly something quite different from the usual flowery rhetoric of lovers, and a wave of feeling broke over me; it was the breath ...

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...race. “At your service, sir,” he continued. “My sword is shorter than yours, it’s true, but, bah! I think the arm will make up for the sword.” “Halt!”...