The Handbook of Oratory: A Cyclopedia of Authorities on Oratory as an Art and of Celebrated Passages from the Best Orations from the Earliest Period to the Present TimeWilliam Vincent Byars F. P. Kaiser, 1901 - 533 pages |
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... Thucydides and Xenophon are of any use to the orator , though he allows that the one sounds the trumpet of war , and that the Muses spoke by the mouth of the other . In digressions , how- ever , we may at times adopt the polished ...
... Thucydides and Xenophon are of any use to the orator , though he allows that the one sounds the trumpet of war , and that the Muses spoke by the mouth of the other . In digressions , how- ever , we may at times adopt the polished ...
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... Thucydides , who also flourished in the same age . It was manly , vehement , and concise , even to some degree of obscurity . " Grandes erant verbis , " says Cicero , " crebri sententiis , compressione rerum breves , et , ob eam ipsam ...
... Thucydides , who also flourished in the same age . It was manly , vehement , and concise , even to some degree of obscurity . " Grandes erant verbis , " says Cicero , " crebri sententiis , compressione rerum breves , et , ob eam ipsam ...
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... Thucydides , who was his great model for style , and whose history he is said to have written eight times over with his own hand . But these defects are far more than compensated by that admirable and masterly force of masculine ...
... Thucydides , who was his great model for style , and whose history he is said to have written eight times over with his own hand . But these defects are far more than compensated by that admirable and masterly force of masculine ...
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... Thucydides , in which this is very judiciously and neatly pointed out ; in the debate respecting the Mityleneans , who had been subdued after a revolt , Cleon is introduced con- tending for the justice of inflicting on them capital ...
... Thucydides , in which this is very judiciously and neatly pointed out ; in the debate respecting the Mityleneans , who had been subdued after a revolt , Cleon is introduced con- tending for the justice of inflicting on them capital ...
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... Thucydides . politician of the present age , he might in the same space of time have skimmed in- numerable newspapers and pamphlets . I do not condemn that desultory mode of study which the state of things in our day renders a matter of ...
... Thucydides . politician of the present age , he might in the same space of time have skimmed in- numerable newspapers and pamphlets . I do not condemn that desultory mode of study which the state of things in our day renders a matter of ...
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Popular passages
Page 461 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last, feeble, and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their...
Page 477 - And Brutus is an honorable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome, Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill; Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honorable man.
Page 478 - Be not too tame, neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Page 477 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar.
Page 477 - Caesar might Have stood against the world : now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence. 0 masters ! if I were disposed to stir Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage, 1 should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong, Who, you all know, are honorable men : I will not do them wrong ; I rather choose To wrong the dead, to wrong myself, and you, Than I will wrong such honorable men.
Page 397 - I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid ? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings, that " except the Lord build the house they labor in vain that build it.
Page 479 - It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way : thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition — but without The illness should attend it : what thou wouldst highly That wouldst thou holily : wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win : Thou 'dst have, great Glamis, That which cries, " Thus thou must do, if thou have it;" And that which rather thou dost fear to do Than wishest should be undone.
Page 478 - I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts. I am no orator, as Brutus is, But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man That love my friend, and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him.
Page 461 - Liberty first and Union afterwards ; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.
Page 480 - My very noble and approved good masters, — That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter, It is most true ; true, I have married her ; The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech, And little bless'd with the set phrase of peace ; For since these arms of mine had seven years...