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९९ action Adam Lux appeal to motives appearance aroused audience Barbaroux Caen called character Charlotte Corday Cheers classification clause common composition conclusion connection copula dénouement discussed effect emotions enthymeme especially essay example exposition expression fact fair familiar feelings fiction force form of discourse Girondists give given hearers honor human idea illustrate important inductive interest kind language logical definition Marat matter means ment mental method metonymy mind narration with plot narration without plot narrative nature necessary nouns novel object orator paragraph pathetic fallacy periodic sentences persons persuasion present principles pronoun proposition purpose question reader reason relation rhetoric Sansculottides scene and setting selection sense sentence Silas Marner slang slavery sometimes speaker speech Storks story student style suggestive syllogism synecdoche tence things thought tion usage verb William Shakespeare words writer
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Pagina 214 - Well, honor is the subject of my story. I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be, as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
Pagina 165 - next county to him. Before this disappointment, Sir Roger was what you call a fine gentleman ; had often supped with my Lord Rochester and Sir George Etherege, fought a duel upon his first coming to town, and kicked Bully Dawson in a public coffee-house for calling him youngster. But being ill used by the
Pagina 166 - often argue, that if this part of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation ; and if another, from another. I have heard him prove, that diligence makes more lasting acquisitions than valour, and that sloth has ruined more nations than the sword. He abounds in several frugal maxims, amongst which
Pagina 340 - The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw, but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night." But it was the light of the body only that was extinguished :
Pagina 164 - acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir Roger. He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, but his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world, only as he thinks the world is in the wrong. However, this humour creates him no enemies, for he does nothing
Pagina 166 - he is at a play, for the actors have an ambition to please him. The person of next consideration, is Sir Andrew Freeport, a merchant of great eminence in the city of London ; a person of indefatigable industry, strong reason, and great experience. His notions of trade are noble and generous, and (as every rich man
Pagina 165 - with sourness or obstinacy; and his being unconfined to modes and forms, makes him but the readier and more capable to please and oblige all who know him. When he is in town, he lives in Soho-square. It .is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the
Pagina 169 - in his function would oblige him to : he is, therefore, among divines, what a chamber-counselor is among lawyers. The probity of his mind, and the integrity of his life, create him followers, as being eloquent or loud advances others. He seldom introduces the subject he speaks upon: but we are so far gone in
Pagina 169 - but when he does, it adds to every man else a new enjoyment of himself. He is a clergyman, a very philosophic man, of general learning, great sanctity of life, and the most exact breeding. He has the misfortune to be of a very weak constitution, and consequently cannot accept of such cares and business as preferments
Pagina 165 - every post questions relating to marriage-articles, leases, and tenures, in the neighborhood ; all which Questions he agrees with an attorney to answer and take care of in the lump. He is studying the passions themselves, when he should be inquiring into the debates among men which arise from them. He knows the