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...The Rhetoric was developed by Aristotle during two periods when he was in Athens, the first between 367 to 347 BCE (when he was seconded to Plato in the Academy), and the second between 335 to 322 BCE (when he was running his own...

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...anslated as riotousness was evangelized to day into the splendour of pious rhetoric; animalism had become fanaticism; Paganism Paulinism, the bold rol...

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...akfast (Déjeuner du matin) The Speech About Peace (Le discours sur la paix) Picasso’s Stroll (La promenade de Picasso) Francis Ponge (1899-1988) Rhetoric (Rhétorique) Ripe Blackberries (Les Mûres) The Orange (L’Orange) Vegetation (Végétation) André Frenaud (1907-1993) I Have Never Forgotten You (Je ne t’ai jamais oubliée) Jean Follain (1903-1971) Dog and School...

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...ll the sufferings of her lovers, till one day, at a neighbouring fair, the rhetoric of John the hostler, with a new straw hat and a pint of wine, made...

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...emason, but gave his leisure to reading and writing imitations of old Scottish ballads. His prose is often spoiled by its misplaced and too ambitious rhetoric; his verse also is ornate, and both are full of mannerisms. Some of his songs, however, hold a high place among British lyrics. A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea is one of the best British sea-songs, although written by ...

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...r poetry and our talk; but I know that I have never found in all the ready rhetorical phrases of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in whose room perhaps I was lo... ...kable men of our epoch? He was one of my pupils in two lower forms, and in rhetoric. I am his professor.” “Ah, sir, then you are M. Porriquet?” “Exact...

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...tation of the pic- turesque had been revived by a poet of some impassioned rhetoric, and two devotees could hardly meet, as the two met here, and not ...

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...ain the British Defense Minister, see if you can't convince him to soften the rhetoric." "Will do," he answered. Don't rush, Senator, our plane doe... ...remainder of the interview continued tit for tat, espousing the same rehashed rhetoric that was old and tired. Nathan was disgusted. He was hoping fo... ...en sincere about this, so-called, war on drugs, or has it just been political rhetoric to appease the public?" The President twisted in his chair a... ...dent twisted in his chair and looked out at the illuminated rose garden. "The rhetoric of war is not the same as the reality of war. But this war is ... ...e hell did they get into the 341 J.Cross/Artemis country?" It was more a rhetorical question than an actual one.” But Franklin answered anyway....

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...s fellowship of thought and beauty. Now I am not writing this in any vague rhetorical way; I mean specifically that our Empire has to become the mediu... ...wonder if any man but an American or a British nonconformist in a state of rhetorical excitement ever be- lieved that Shakespeare wrote his plays or M... ...eemed impregnable; at the slightest qualm of doubt America took to violent rhetoric as a drunkard re- sorts to drink. Now the indictment I have drawn ... ... race-suicide of the native- born to every American intelligence, but mere rhetoric will not in itself suffice to make people, insecurely employed and...

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...speech could have been more thoroughly honest in its intention: the frigid rhetoric at the end was as sincere as the bark of a dog, or the cawing of a... ...in. Moreover, if Mr. Casaubon, speaking for himself, has rather a chilling rhetoric, it is not therefore certain that there is no good work or fine fe... ...ineering—I’ve made up my mind to that.” He fell into meditation and finger-rhetoric again for a little while, and then continued: “I shall make Brooke...

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...speech could have been more thoroughly honest in its intention: the frigid rhetoric at the end was as sincere as the bark of a dog, or the cawing of a... .... More over, if Mr. Casaubon, speaking for himself, has rather a chilling rhetoric, it is not therefore certain that there is no good work or fine fee... ...ineering— I’ve made up my mind to that.” He fell into meditation and finger rhetoric again for a little while, and then continued: “I shall make Brooke...

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...e windlass. The mate, between the knight heads, exhausted all his official rhetoric, in calls of ‘‘Heave with a will!’’—‘‘Heave hearty, men!—heave h...