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...Serb, pro-central government constitution. Radic moderated his demands, if not his rhetoric. The goal was now a federated Yugoslavia with Croat aut...

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...ly witty, mocking human vainglory. A piece of exquisite baroque prose that George Saintsbury called the longest piece, perhaps, of absolutely sublime rhetoric to be found in the prose literature of the world, Hydriotaphia displays an astonishing command of English prose rhythm and diction. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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...,’ said Arthur, rising to his feet. Their brave simplicity moved him as no rhetoric could have done, and they made him more eager still to devote his ...

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...umbug; but this sort of humbug had become so prominent a part of her usual rhetoric, that she found it very hard to abandon it. ‘And that’s what I wis...

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...hannel. In a minute, he ejaculates, “Bravo! This young leader has emerged so strong. He’ll certainly show the right way to outdated leaders, stuck in rhetorics.” His wife Ramla says, “It’s all drama. … Nidhi deliberately provided her guest to ask about her life with Doctor Roy; and informed the questioner that having lived with her during a very pleasant honeymoon trip...

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...t Kristine’s family past as the relationship deepens 146. Steward divides his attention between Cinco de Mayo and Kristine 147. Brandt balks at the rhetoric of revolution—peaceful or violent 148. Brandt gets stoned his first time in Houghten’s alley apartment 149. Matt and Mary argue after Mary discovers he got stoned 150. O’Rourke and then Steward leave their L.A. ga...

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...e windlass. The mate, between the knight heads, exhausted all his official rhetoric, in calls of ‘‘Heave with a will!’’—‘‘Heave hearty, men!—heave h...

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...ients: I wrote a most elaborate letter, where, mingling all the flowers of rhetoric which I had bor- rowed from books with the phrases of an apprentic...

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...bt, Till my bad angel fire my good one out. 4 III. Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye, ‘Gainst whom the world could not hold argument, Pers...

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... written upon it. Special articles, in literary pamphlets, dis- sected its rhetoric and prosody. The phrases were quoted,—were used as texts for revol...

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...ay to have a separate existence; it is absorbed in two other sci- ences: (1) rhetoric, if indeed this ancient art be not also fading away into literar... ...ere driven out, and in former days had been known at Athens as professors of rhetoric and of the art of fighting in armour. To this they have now adde... ...kingly art is more fully devel- oped in the Politicus, and the caricature of rhetoric in the Gorgias. The characters of the Dialogue are easily intell... ...hat which is not and is no- where? I think not, said Ctesippus. Well, but do rhetoricians, when they speak in the as- sembly, do nothing? 31 Euthydem... ...was that? I said. Y ou would have heard the greatest masters of the art of rhetoric dis- coursing. And what did you think of them? I said. What ... ...nd the good are few and beyond all price: for example, are not gymnastic and rhetoric and money-mak- ing and the art of the general, noble arts? CRITO...

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... It were, peradventure, excusable in a painter or other arti- san, or in a rhetorician or a grammarian, to endeavour to raise himself a name by his wo... ...ry sharply reproves an edict of his whereby he inter- dicted all Christian rhetoricians and grammarians to keep school or to teach, and says he could ... ...hese external appearances? Let us leave that care to actors and masters of rhetoric, who set so great a value upon our gestures. Let her allow this vo...

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... effect on Jones, and while he was weighing it, the landlord threw all the rhetoric of which he was master into the same scale. “Sure, sir,” said he, ... ...e parson’s arms had at first been of more service than the strength of his rhetoric. However, his last words wrought some effect, and the squire answe...

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...ied in this his pleading: His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, Of rhetoric, which the learn’d call ‘rigmarole.’ Julia said nought; though...

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...tatesman and the illustration of method are connected, not like the love and rhetoric of the Phaedrus, by ‘little invis- ible pegs,’ but in a confused... ...is aspect of dialectic is further 32 Statesman sketched out, and the art of rhetoric is based on the division of the characters of mankind into their... ...y teaching? YOUNG SOCRATES: That power, I think, must clearly be assigned to rhetoric. STRANGER: And to what science do we give the 129 Plato power o... ...f I am not mistaken, will be politics? YOUNG SOCRATES: V ery good. STRANGER: Rhetoric seems to be quickly distin- guished from politics, being a diffe...

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...w eristic, now clothing himself in rags of philosophy , now more akin to the rhetorician or lawyer , now haranguing, now questioning, until the final ... ...a tendency to per sonify ideas. And the Sophist is not merely a teacher of rhetoric for a fee of one or fifty drachmae (Crat.), but an ideal of Plat... ...od and wise men, and devoid of true education. This creature has many heads: rhetoricians, lawyers, states men, poets, sophists. But the Sophist is t... ... conveyed by the word; the additional association, if any , was only that of rhetorician or teacher . Philosophy had become eclecticism and imitation... ...reciter of the poets, the di vider of the meanings of words, the teacher of rhetoric, the professor of morals and manners. 2. The use of the term ‘So...

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... know More happiness than this thy present lot. Enjoy your dear wit, and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence; Thou art not ...

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...al fathers of the Church; and nobody would lis- ten to religion, poetry or rhetoric; so that even Socialism had to call itself “scientific,” and predi... ...ntly as at Covent Garden, an intolerably old-fash- ioned tradition of half rhetorical, half historical-pictorial at- titude and gesture prevails. The ...

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...lation of Aristotle’s Ethics; the third on Virtues and Vices; the fourth, on Rhetoric. For an interesting memoir relating to this work, see Hist. de l...

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...uld instantly restore it. When, for instance, Tom’s repulsed battalions of rhetoric fled from his mamma’s fire, a 136 Catherine: A Story few words of... ...far more em- phatic than any composition of his own could be, with all the rhetorical graces which he might employ. Mr. Aram’s trial, as taken by the ...

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...ke an epidemic. The robe of speculative cobwebs, embroidered with flowers of rhetoric, steeped in the dew of sickly senti ment, this transcendental r...

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... outright on the Procrustean bed; they are probably always disfigured. The rhetorical artifice of Macaulay is easily spied; it will take longer to app... ... shall not fail to perish themselves in the ruin, he concludes with a last rhetorical flourish: “And therefore let all men be advertised, for the trum... ...7 Familiar Studies of Men & Books deed, as it is, in this little strain of rhetoric about the trum- pet, this current allusion to the fall of Jericho,... ...former. He returns to it again and again; it is the Alpha and Omega of his rhetoric; it is to him what a ship is to the stage sailor; and one would al... ...al reasons! for I will not be persuaded with them.’ God knows I did use no rhetoric nor coloured speech; but would have spoken the truth, and that in ...