It is rapid harmony, exactly adjusted to the sense : it is vehement reasoning, without any appearance of art : it is disdain, anger, boldness, freedom, involved in a continued stream of argument : and, of all human productions, the orations of Demosthenes... History of Greek Literature - Página 317por Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, Charles James Blomfield - 1851 - 396 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1820 - 590 páginas
...proceeds thus — ' Could it * be copied, its success would be infallible over a modern as' sembly. It is rapid harmony exactly adjusted to the sense : '...Orations of Demosthenes present to us the models which ap' proach the nearest to perfection,' How well this agrees with the testimonials of antiquity, we... | |
| David Hume - 1804 - 592 páginas
...than that of the other. Could it be copied, its success would be infallible over a modern assembly. It is rapid harmony, exactly adjusted to the sense :...models which, approach the nearest to perfection. Thirdly, It may be pretended, that the disorders of the ancient governments, and the enormous crimes,... | |
| Henry Kett - 1805 - 432 páginas
...than that of Cicero. Could it be copied, its success would be infallible over a modern assembly. It ia rapid harmony exactly adjusted to the sense : it is...reasoning, without any appearance of art : it is disdain, boldness, anger, and freedom, involved in a continued stream of argument : and of all human productions... | |
| Henry Kett - 1805 - 422 páginas
...its success would be infallible over a modern assembly. It is rapid harmony exactly adjusted to die sense : it is vehement reasoning, without any appearance of art : it is disdain, boldness, anger, and freedom, involved in a continued stream of argument : and of all human productions... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1807 - 406 páginas
...judgment I concur with Mr. David Home, in his essay upon Eloquence. He gives it as bis opinion that, of all human productions, the orations of Demosthenes...the models which approach the nearest to perfection. t As bis expressions art remarkably happy and beautiful, the passage here referred to deserves to be... | |
| Jean Siffrein Maury - 1807 - 298 páginas
...anger, boldness, freedom, involved in ' a continued stream of argument. And of all human pro' ductions the Orations of Demosthenes present to us the ' models which approach the nearest to perfection.' HUME'S Essays, xii. vol. ip 120, 121. Mr. KNOX observes, that ' Many critics have employed ' theirtalents... | |
| David Hume - 1809 - 868 páginas
...than that of the other. Could it be copied, its success would be infallible over a modern assembly. It is rapid harmony, exactly adjusted to the sense :...the models which approach the nearest to perfection. Thirdly, It may be pretended, that the disorders of die ancient governments, and the enormous crimes,... | |
| Henry Kett - 1812 - 500 páginas
...than that of Cicero. Could it be copied, its success would be infallible over a modern assembly. It is rapid harmony exactly adjusted to the sense : it...reasoning, without any appearance of art : it is disdain, boldness, anger, and freedom, involved in a continued stream of argument : and of all human productions... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1820 - 538 páginas
...judgment I concur with Mr. David Hume, in his Essay upon Eloquence. He gives it as his opinion, that, of all human productions, the Orations of Demosthenes...the models which approach the nearest to perfection. he enters into a controversy with A. Gellius, in order to prove that Aristotle's Rhetoric was not published... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 794 páginas
...judgment T concur with Mr. David Hume, in his Essay upon Eloquence. He gives it as his opinion, that E -e ֔a x" L. [lׅj J wU j " ͢m V W n;| model« which approach the nearest to perfection. t As his expressions are remarkably happy and beautiful,... | |
| |