The Debater a New Theory of the Art of Speaking...

Frederick Rowton

Longmans, Green and Company, 1850 - 304 páginas

Índice

• Have the Gold Mines of Spain or the Coal Mines: 25
• Are the Mental Capacities of the Sexes equal ?: 35
• Is Capital Punishment justifiable ?: 45
• Does Morality increase with Civilisation ?: 73
• Has the Stage a Moral Tendency ?: 96
• Have the Crusades been beneficial to Mankind ?: 119
• Is the Character of Oliver Cromwell worthy of: 141
• Which was the greater Poet Shakspere: 166
• Which has done the greater Service to Mankind: 189
• Which does the most to make the Orator: 210
• Miser or the Spendthrift ?: 231
• Which was the greatest Man Bonaparte Watt: 237
• Are Brutes endowed with Reason?: 243
• Is Modern equal to Ancient Oratory ?: 249
• Was the Execution of Charles the First justi: 257
• PART III: 264
• Has the Invention of Gunpowder been of Benefit to Mankind ?: 265
• Which was the greater Orator Demosthenes or Cicero?: 266
• Has the Fear of Punishment or the Hope of Reward the greater Influence on Human Conduct?: 267
• Should Emulation be encouraged in Education ?: 268
• Is Military Renown a fit Object of Ambition ?: 269
• Is the Character of Queen Elizabeth deserving of our Admiration ?: 270
• Which is the more valuable Metal Gold or Iron?: 271
• Can any Circumstances justify a Departure from Truth?: 272
• From which does the Mind gain the more Know ledge Reading or Observation ?: 273
• Which has done the greater Service to Truth: 274
• Is Transportation a fit and effective Punish: 279
• Which did the most to produce the French Revo: 284
• Which was the worse Monarch Richard: 289
• Should not Practice in Athletic Games form: 293
• 978: 300

Passagens conhecidas

Página 172 - For softness she and sweet attractive grace, He for God only, she for God in him: His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad...

Página 181 - O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.

Página 182 - Mortals, that would follow me, Love virtue; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.

Página 173 - To speak; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers: Attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth: at last Words, interwove with sighs, found out their way.

Página 19 - Wha will be a traitor knave? Wha can fill a coward's grave? Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn and flee! Wha, for Scotland's King and Law, Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Free-man stand, or Free-man fa', Let him follow me!

Página 181 - All murdered : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp, Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be feared, and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and humoured thus, Comes at the last and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and — farewell king! Cover your heads...

Página 181 - Shall be unsaid for me : against the threats Of malice or of sorcery, or that power Which erring men call Chance, this I hold firm, Virtue may be assail'd, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthrall'd ; Yea even that which mischief meant most harm, Shall in the happy trial prove most glory...

Página 180 - Their dread commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...

Página 207 - By his admirable contrivance, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility, — for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which that power can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it.

Página 181 - tis too late. Lucio. You are too cold. [To Isabella. Isab. Too late? why, no; I, that do speak a word, May call it back again: Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.

Informação bibliográfica

• Título: The Debater a New Theory of the Art of Speaking...
• Autor: Frederick Rowton
• Edição: 2
• Editora: Longmans, Green and Company, 1850
• Original de: la Biblioteca de Catalunya
• Digitalizado: 27 Mai 2008
• Número de páginas: 304 páginas