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acquired addressing admire adopted ARTHUR ROBERTS assembly attain attention audience become bestowed cause chapter Christian Church Cicero classic education cloth consider cultivate Demosthenes dignity discourse doubt earnest effect eloquence endeavour ends energies English Hearts evil exer exercise express extempore speaking faculty feelings George Town gesture give hand hear heard hearers heart holy orders ideas improve influence instance JAMES NISBET ject labour language learned lecture listen Lord Chatham man's manner manuscript means memory mind moral nerves never noble numbers object orator oratory ourselves pathies perfect pleasing possess powers preacher preaching public speaker pulpit Quintilian readers Regent's Park religion remarks respect rises to speak roused sedentes sermon Small crown 8vo soul speak in public speech spirit striving style successful speaker talents things thought tion tivating toil tone truth utter venture to say virtue voice whilst wish Woodrising writing
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Página 46 - That cherubim, which now appears as a god to a human soul, knows very well that the period will come about in eternity, when the human soul shall be as perfect as he himself now is; nay, when she shall look down upon that degree of perfection as much as she now falls short of it.
Página 47 - The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity without a possibility of touching it*: and can there be a thought so transporting, as to consider ourselves in these perpetual approaches to him, who is not only the standard of perfection but of happiness ! L.
Página 69 - MOST foreign writers, who have given any character of the English nation, whatever vices they ascribe to it, allow, in general, that the people are naturally modest. It proceeds perhaps from this our national virtue, that our orators are observed to make use of less gesture or action than those of other countries. Our preachers stand stock still in the pulpit, and will not so much as move a finger to set off the best sermons in the world.
Página 12 - By the powers of his eloquence, the augustness of the assembly is lost in the dignity of the orator, and the importance of the subject for a while superseded by the admiration of his talents. With what strength of argument, with what powers of the fancy, with what emotions of the heart, does he assault and subjugate the whole man, and at once captivate his reason, his imagination, and his passions ! To effect this must be the utmost effort of the most improved state of human nature.
Página 46 - It is true, the higher nature still advances, and by that means preserves his distance and superiority in the scale of being ; but he knows, how high soever the station is of which he stands possessed at present, the inferior nature will at length mount up to it, and shine forth in the same degree of glory. With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge, such inexhausted sources...
Página 70 - They are a kind of comment to what he utters, and enforce every thing he says, with weak hearers, better than the strongest argument he can make use of. They keep the audience awake, and fix their attention to what is delivered to them, at the same time that they show the speaker is in earnest, and affected himself with what he so passionately recommends to others.
Página 59 - A just and reasonable Modesty does not only recommend Eloquence, but sets off every great Talent which a Man can be possessed of. It heightens all the Virtues which it accompanies ; like the Shades in Paintings, it raises and rounds every Figure, and makes the Colours more beautiful, tho' not so glaring as they would be without it.
Página 72 - ... you may see many a smart rhetorician turning his hat in his hands, moulding it into several different cocks, examining sometimes the lining of it, and sometimes the button, during the whole course of his harangue. A deaf man would think he was cheapening a beaver when perhaps he is talking of the fate of the British nation.
Página 9 - The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between men, between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy — invincible determination, a purpose once fixed, and then, death or victory.
Página 12 - IMAGINE to yourselves a Demosthenes, addressing the most illustrious assembly in the world, upon a point whereon the fate of the most illustrious of nations depended — How awful such a meeting ! how vast the subject! — Is man possessed of talents adequate to the great occasion ? — Adequate ! Yes, superior. By the power of his eloquence, the augustness...