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action Adam Lux appeal to motives appearance arguments from cause aroused audience Barbaroux botany burden of proof Caen called character characteristics Charlotte Charlotte Corday Cheers Christian classification color common conclusion connection copula dénouement diction discussion effect emotions England enthymeme especially essay exact existence exposition expression fact fair familiar feelings form of discourse Girondists give given hear hearers honor human idea illustrate important inductive intellect interest kind logical definition major premise Marat matter means ment mental method mind Miracles motives narration without plot nature necessary object orator paragraph pathetic fallacy Periodic sentences persons persuasion premise present principles proposition question reader reason relation rhetoric Sansculottides selection sense sentence slavery sometimes speaker speech Storks story style suggestive syllogism things thought tion truth William Shakespeare words writer York
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Pagina 193 - Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
Pagina 149 - Dee." They rowed her in across the rolling foam, The cruel crawling foam, The cruel hungry foam, To her grave beside the sea: But still the boatmen hear her call the cattle home Across the sands of Dee.
Pagina 164 - THE first of our society is a gentleman of Worcestershire, of ancient descent, a baronet; his name Sir Roger de Coverley. His great-grandfather was inventor of that famous country-dance which is called after him. All who know that shire are very well 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.
Pagina 167 - Roger, he has quitted a way of life in which no man can rise suitably to his merit, who is not something of a courtier, as well as a soldier. I have heard him often lament, that in a profession where merit is placed in so conspicuous a view, impudence should get the better of modesty.
Pagina 165 - His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company. When he comes into a house he calls the servants by their names, and talks all the way upstairs to a visit.
Pagina 165 - It is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the 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.
Pagina 167 - ... at the same time I can say this of him, that there is not a point in the compass, but blows home a ship in which he is an owner. Next to Sir ANDREW in the club-room sits Captain SENTRY, a gentleman of great courage, good understanding, but invincible modesty.
Pagina 166 - He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts, and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms; for true power is to be got by arts and industry.
Pagina 168 - He is very ready at that sort of discourse with which men usually entertain women. He has all his life dressed very well, and remembers habits as others do men. He can smile when one speaks to him, and laughs easily. He knows the history of every mode, and can inform you from which of the French king's wenches our wives and daughters had this manner of curling their hair...
Pagina 165 - Temple, a man of great probity, wit, and understanding; but he has chosen his place of residence rather to obey the direction of an old humoursome father, than in pursuit of his own inclinations. He was placed there to study the laws of the land, and is the most learned of any of the house in those of the stage.