The orator's guide, or The practice and power of eloquence - Tapa blanda

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 Excerpt: ...and probably Venus has been more frequently apostrophized by the Poets than Mars. By artfully employing this Figure, while addressing a third party, the speaker is enabled to give free utterance to his sentiments, and thus to admonish and rebuke without giving personal offence. Cicero, speaking in behalf of Porcpey, thus breaks forth:--"I call upon you, 'mute Regions;' you, 'most distant Countries;' you, Seas, Harbours, and Shores;--for what coast, what land, what place is there, in which the lively traces of his courage, humanity, greatness, and wisdom, are not extant?" This Figure may be used to applaud or condemn; to kindle admiration or indignation. It is mostly pathetic, and appeals to our kindlier feelings, so as to quicken our sympathies; but it also condemns in the strongest terms. Its force is seen in the lines of Dr. Watts, on the celebrated John Howe:--Howe is a great but single Name; Amidst the Crowd he stands alone; Stands yet, but with his starry pinions on, Brest for the flight, and ready to be gone. Etebnal God! command his stay; Stretch the dear months of his delay. 0 we could wish his age were one immortal day. But when the flaming chariots come, And shining Guards to attend thy Prophet home, Amidst a thousand weeping eyes, Send an Elisha down, a Soul of equal size; Or burn this worthless Globe, and take us to the Skies. Young, in his " Night Thoughts," thus exclaims:--O lost to Virtue! lost to manly Thought! Lost to the noble sallies of the Soul! Who think it solitude to be alone! Our Season, Guabdian Angel, and Oub God, Then nearest these when others most remote-, And All, ere long, shall be remote but These. He was still living. Falconbbidge thus counsels King John, endeavouring to quicken his craven Spirit with a sp...

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