Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Bind 1Richard Phillips, 1808 - 623 sider |
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... hearers , establish an influence over their minds . To select the circumstances which will have most effect is the ... hearer and reader . I shall subjoin another instance of a picture composed of a variety of little , but well - chosen ...
... hearers , establish an influence over their minds . To select the circumstances which will have most effect is the ... hearer and reader . I shall subjoin another instance of a picture composed of a variety of little , but well - chosen ...
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... hearers . I have seen , in the midst of a grave debate , the whole house agitated as by a shock of electri- city , by some new and unexpected sally . These were sometimes of a witty , and sometimes of a serious description . But in ...
... hearers . I have seen , in the midst of a grave debate , the whole house agitated as by a shock of electri- city , by some new and unexpected sally . These were sometimes of a witty , and sometimes of a serious description . But in ...
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... hearers are much inflamed . The same author observes , that some writers fill their books with points of admiration ! as if the points were sufficient to produce that passion by a magical power , when their senti- ments are perfectly ...
... hearers are much inflamed . The same author observes , that some writers fill their books with points of admiration ! as if the points were sufficient to produce that passion by a magical power , when their senti- ments are perfectly ...
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... hearers well disposed , both to the speaker and the subject . The introduction , says Cicero , must make the hearers docile or tractable ; that is , it must render them attentive to what is to be said ; but if the subject is of ...
... hearers well disposed , both to the speaker and the subject . The introduction , says Cicero , must make the hearers docile or tractable ; that is , it must render them attentive to what is to be said ; but if the subject is of ...
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... hearers will feel disappointment , and will consequently be displeased instead of concili- ated . Every public speaker should bear in his mind the artful demeanour of the wise Ulysses in the contest with Ajax , as described in the 13th ...
... hearers will feel disappointment , and will consequently be displeased instead of concili- ated . Every public speaker should bear in his mind the artful demeanour of the wise Ulysses in the contest with Ajax , as described in the 13th ...
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