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Page 67
... ence we are forced to gather up the figure in frag- ments , here one talent and there another . The audience is a constant meter of the orator . There are many audiences in every public assembly , each one of which rules in turn . If ...
... ence we are forced to gather up the figure in frag- ments , here one talent and there another . The audience is a constant meter of the orator . There are many audiences in every public assembly , each one of which rules in turn . If ...
Page 68
... ence , - the capacity of virtue . They are ready to be beatified . They know so much more than the orator , — and are so just ! There is a tablet there for every line he can inscribe , though he should mount to the highest levels ...
... ence , - the capacity of virtue . They are ready to be beatified . They know so much more than the orator , — and are so just ! There is a tablet there for every line he can inscribe , though he should mount to the highest levels ...
Page 82
... the other , but he can show how all Europe can be diminished and reduced under the king , by annex- ing to Spain a continent as large as six or seven Europes . This balance between the orator and the audi- ence is 82 ELOQUENCE .
... the other , but he can show how all Europe can be diminished and reduced under the king , by annex- ing to Spain a continent as large as six or seven Europes . This balance between the orator and the audi- ence is 82 ELOQUENCE .
Page 83
Ralph Waldo Emerson. This balance between the orator and the audi- ence is expressed in what is called the pertinence of the speaker . There is always a rivalry between the orator and the occasion , between the demands of the hour and ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. This balance between the orator and the audi- ence is expressed in what is called the pertinence of the speaker . There is always a rivalry between the orator and the occasion , between the demands of the hour and ...
Page 170
... ence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment . Their merit was not to reverence the old , but to honor the present moment ; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied . Another ...
... ence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment . Their merit was not to reverence the old , but to honor the present moment ; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied . Another ...
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