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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... 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- ference , we ...
... 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- ference , we ...
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... causes , where it is necessary , he in- cludes it within the compass of the proposition . By the forms of proceeding ... cause . The narration in the process of the common law is called the declara- tion , and is inserted into the writ ...
... causes , where it is necessary , he in- cludes it within the compass of the proposition . By the forms of proceeding ... cause . The narration in the process of the common law is called the declara- tion , and is inserted into the writ ...
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... 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 speaker se ...
... 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 speaker se ...
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... cause . In the conflict of jurispru- dence , as in the contests of nations , the strong may be as essentially benefited by the concur- rence of the weak , as the weak by their recurrence to the strong . So great are the advantages of a ...
... cause . In the conflict of jurispru- dence , as in the contests of nations , the strong may be as essentially benefited by the concur- rence of the weak , as the weak by their recurrence to the strong . So great are the advantages of a ...
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... the se- cond of a discrimination between those points , up- on which the two parties to a cause were agreed , and those upon which their contest was to turn . This last form , though not very customary in the 14 [ LECT . XIX . PROPOSITION.
... the se- cond of a discrimination between those points , up- on which the two parties to a cause were agreed , and those upon which their contest was to turn . This last form , though not very customary in the 14 [ LECT . XIX . PROPOSITION.
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