The Studies of an Orator: An Inaugural Address, Delivered at the Annual Commencement in Dartmouth College, July, 1840Office of the American Biblical repository, and the American eclectic, 1841 - 23 Seiten |
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Seite 18 - world moved still. Would he tell of the direful effects of oppression ? He recollects how the pent-up elements lay simmering together for a thousand years, till they burst off the incumbent mass, and overwhelmed nations. Would he show that revolutions are not productive of evil alone
Seite 17 - which will be very effectual for the purpose and intent aforesaid,—the lords of his majesty's privy council do therefore ordain, that whenever any person shall be, by their order, put to the torture, the said boots and thuinbikins,
Seite 15 - old sprains and fractures, which again become sensible when any new malady has attacked the body,"™not the invectives against " that miscreant," " that abject scrivener," " that vile player,"—not the taunts of " low origin," " menial services," " clamorous howling,"—-not the narration of his own public services,—not the oath by the souls who fought at Marathon, at
Seite 16 - over his great rivals and coadjutors. Fox argued as well, debated better; Sheridan poured forth as rapid, if not as copious a flood of illustration and invective ; Pitt equalled, perhaps excelled him, in sarcasm and lofty declamation; but in profoundness of thought, in gathering from the amorphous mass of disjointed facts the law
Seite 12 - Crown is said to be almost at his tongue's end ; other orations he has translated ; the writers and speakers of modern times he has critically analyzed,—of older times, carefully studied, and reaps his reward in a more thoroughly Saxon, and, which is saying the same thing, a more vigorous style than any orator of his age.
Seite 20 - painting, statuary, architecture and music cultivate those emotions which the orator needs, and are themselves governed by the same principles which govern him. Other studies may be peculiarly appropriate to different professions. The preacher feels his need of mental philosophy ; the political speaker, his need of history ; but all need the discipline
Seite 12 - I have suggested some of the minor studies of the orator : for of inferior consequence they certainly are, when compared with those that tend more directly to discipline and invigorate the mind. No beauty of style, no fine arrangement of argument will avail, if the argument itself be feeble.
Seite 12 - No study demands more subtle and patient thought, a greater power of abstraction, or more careful investigation. Nowhere else is such cunning sophistry to be detected, or fallacies to be more carefully watched. As mind is above matter, so is a true knowledge of mental science, a higher step in our intellectual progress, than a knowledge of physical
Seite 13 - A study of the mind affords an appropriate kind of knowledge. We are told that when the great revolutionary orator of Virginia, in one of the unpromising vicissitudes of his early life, became joint owner of a shop, he was not so intent upon selling his small
Seite 5 - have a surprising facility in attenuating every idea which they chance to fall upon, others,—and they are the models of the writer,—have as marvellous a power of expanding and enlivening the most ordinary thought. Strip the thought of its graceful robe, and you wonder where