An Introductory Course in Argumentation

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American book Company, 1906 - 230 стор.

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Сторінка 71 - In his speech last autumn at Columbus, Ohio, as reported in the New York Times, Senator Douglas said : — "' Our fathers when they framed the government under which we live, understood this question just as well, and even better, than we do now.' " I fully indorse this, and I adopt it as a text for this discourse. I
Сторінка 144 - downstairs, desire me to be no more so familiarity with such poor people; saying that ere long they should call me madam ? And didst thou not kiss me and bid me fetch thee thirty shillings ? I put thee now to thy book-oath : deny it, if thou canst.
Сторінка 138 - Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
Сторінка 153 - if it please you, master. Glou. Then, Saunder, sit there, the lyingest knave in Christendom. If thou hadst been born blind, thou mightst as well have known all our names as thus to name the several colors we do wear. Sight may distinguish of colors; but suddenly to nominate them all, it is impossible.
Сторінка 104 - population to be neither prudent nor practicable. "To impoverish the colonies in general, and in particular to arrest the noble course of their marine enterprises, would be a more easy task. I freely confess it. We have shown a disposition to a system of this kind, — a disposition even to
Сторінка 134 - It was only in fine weather that the whole breadth of the road was available for wheeled vehicles. Often the mud lay deep on the right and the left; and only a narrow track of firm ground rose above the quagmire. 2 At such times obstructions and quarrels were frequent, and the path
Сторінка 124 - What, ho ! our countrymen in chains ! The whip on woman's shrinking flesh ! Our soil yet reddening with the stains Caught from her scourging, warm and fresh ! What I mothers from their children riven ! What I God's own image bought and sold ! Americans to market driven, And bartered as the brute for gold.
Сторінка 134 - In the course of another journey he narrowly escaped being swept away by an inundation of the Trent. He was afterwards detained at Stamford four days on account of the state of the roads, and then ventured to proceed only because fourteen members of the House of Commons, who were going up in a
Сторінка 152 - Let me see thine eyes : wink now: now open them: In my opinion yet thou see'st not well. Simpcox. Yes, master, clear as day, I thank God and Saint Alban. Glou. Say'st thou me so ? What color is this cloak of ? Simp. Red, master; red as blood. Glou. Why, that's well said. What color is my gown of?
Сторінка 72 - question — is precisely what the text declares our fathers understood ' better than we.' Let us now inquire whether the ' thirty-nine' or any of them ever acted upon this question; and if they did, how they acted upon it — how they expressed that better understanding.

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