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... seems to require more 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 ...
... seems to require more 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 ...
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... seems to be the effect of a vibration of the air , which is agitated in several different direc- tions . The birds are then observed to dart in their flight ; neither their tails nor their wings serve them any longer as oars and helms ...
... seems to be the effect of a vibration of the air , which is agitated in several different direc- tions . The birds are then observed to dart in their flight ; neither their tails nor their wings serve them any longer as oars and helms ...
Side 29
... seems to approve much of his military descriptions , particularly in his his- tory of the Jugurthine war ; but the General makes an observation , which , if I understand it properly , surprises me " The consum mate ability with which ...
... seems to approve much of his military descriptions , particularly in his his- tory of the Jugurthine war ; but the General makes an observation , which , if I understand it properly , surprises me " The consum mate ability with which ...
Side 37
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Side 43
... seem better adapted to the recording of recent events than to the relation of facts long past , and therefore less immediately in- teresting . After the revival of letters , the Germans seem to have more particularly applied to the ...
... seem better adapted to the recording of recent events than to the relation of facts long past , and therefore less immediately in- teresting . After the revival of letters , the Germans seem to have more particularly applied to the ...
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