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Memorials of the Life of John Gregg

Memorials of the Life of John Gregg

Gregg, Robert Samuel

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ISBN10: 1150683589
ISBN13: 9781150683589
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.32 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ... What is the first and simplest emotion of the human mind? 156. What is the language that every one can understand, and the book that every one can read? 157. What does Solomon mean by saying, He that praiseth his friend aloud, rising early, it shall be to him no better than a curse ? 158. What are the two main ingredients in the highest order of eloquence? 159. What is the first requisite for good speaking or good writing? 160. Why is a natural manner the most pleasing, the most beguiling, and the most effective? 161. Is a natural manner the effect of nature or art? 162. What is the source of the sublime, according to Edmund Burke? 163. What, according to Blair? 164. What is the sublime, according to Longinus? 165. Which of the poets of antiquity is most remarkable for sublimity? 166. Which for the tender, the delicate, and the pathetic? 167. Is the sublime in words or in thoughts? 168. What is the effect of an effort to be sublime? 169. What passion is provoked, if the effort be a failure? 170. Why is an affected manner disliked? 171. What does an effort to be continuously sublime, terminate in? 172. What is the sublimest saying in the book of Genesis? 173. What the most pathetic? 174. What is the most sublime saying in the Gospels? 175. What the most pathetic? 176. What is Addison's most sublime saying? 177. What is the most sublime passage in Demosthenes? 178. What in Cicero? 179. What is the characteristic of sublimity? 180. What is opposite to sublimity in speaking or writing? 181. What Book in the Bible has the most sublime sayings? 182. What is the difference between history and prophecy? 183. What is the most sublime saying of Csesar? 184. What is the proudest saying of Alexander the Great? 185. What is the sublime answer of Porus...

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