Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University, Volume 2Hilliard and Metcalf, 1810 - Oratory |
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... judicial causes . The exordium and peroration , may sometimes be discarded . If a distribution of parts be made only for the sake of discovering how much ingenuity can be wasted upon the multiplication of distinctions without dif ...
... judicial causes . The exordium and peroration , may sometimes be discarded . If a distribution of parts be made only for the sake of discovering how much ingenuity can be wasted upon the multiplication of distinctions without dif ...
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... judicial causes , where it is necessary , he in- cludes it within the compass of the proposition . By the forms of proceeding in our judicial courts the distinction between the narration and proposition is sufficiently clear . They both ...
... judicial causes , where it is necessary , he in- cludes it within the compass of the proposition . By the forms of proceeding in our judicial courts the distinction between the narration and proposition is sufficiently clear . They both ...
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... judicial causes it terminates by an issue , upon which the parties put themselves upon the country for a verdict , or upon the court for a judgment . In sermons it is substantially contained in the text from scripture , which the ...
... judicial causes it terminates by an issue , upon which the parties put themselves upon the country for a verdict , or upon the court for a judgment . In sermons it is substantially contained in the text from scripture , which the ...
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... judicial causes there must be one point stronger than the rest ; of course it makes them useless , and per- haps loses some of its strength by the incumbrance of their alliance . All these objections are fairly and fully stated by ...
... judicial causes there must be one point stronger than the rest ; of course it makes them useless , and per- haps loses some of its strength by the incumbrance of their alliance . All these objections are fairly and fully stated by ...
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... judicial ora- tions must generally be addressed to select assem- blies ; and the purpose of the speaker must be ap- parent in the very form of discussion . It cannot be denied , that the construction of a discourse with accurate ...
... judicial ora- tions must generally be addressed to select assem- blies ; and the purpose of the speaker must be ap- parent in the very form of discussion . It cannot be denied , that the construction of a discourse with accurate ...
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