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... genius , for if the orator would touch the heart , he must call fancy to his aid , yet it is an ex- traordinary fact , that taking oratory in an ex- tensive view , as including all addresses to the passions , whether in the shape of ...
... genius , for if the orator would touch the heart , he must call fancy to his aid , yet it is an ex- traordinary fact , that taking oratory in an ex- tensive view , as including all addresses to the passions , whether in the shape of ...
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... genius , when well executed , as much as an oration or an epic poem , and scarcely perhaps a less laborious effort .. You will think I shall never have done with ; divisions and classifications ; for I must remark that public history ...
... genius , when well executed , as much as an oration or an epic poem , and scarcely perhaps a less laborious effort .. You will think I shall never have done with ; divisions and classifications ; for I must remark that public history ...
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... genius and character of the particular people whom he delineates , it was necessary to mention many facts which he suspected , and some that he knew to be false . He declares , that " though he considers it as his duty to deliver what ...
... genius and character of the particular people whom he delineates , it was necessary to mention many facts which he suspected , and some that he knew to be false . He declares , that " though he considers it as his duty to deliver what ...
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... genius and disposition of the wri- ter , and in part on the nature of the subject . Every writer ought however to adopt a uniform style , which , after some practice , will almost come of course , if he writes from himself , and is not ...
... genius and disposition of the wri- ter , and in part on the nature of the subject . Every writer ought however to adopt a uniform style , which , after some practice , will almost come of course , if he writes from himself , and is not ...
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... genius seems to me happily calculated for narration . He is clear and spirited ; and though he can rarely reach either the sublime or the pathetic , he al- ways interests . Some of his dissertations , as that on the consequences of the ...
... genius seems to me happily calculated for narration . He is clear and spirited ; and though he can rarely reach either the sublime or the pathetic , he al- ways interests . Some of his dissertations , as that on the consequences of the ...
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