26 Metaphors for discoursing

His discourse is all positions and definitive decrees, with thus it must be and thus it is, and he will not humble his authority to prove it.

Sir, your discourse Is stuff of severall pieces and knitts not With that you

His discourse is vomit, and his ignorance the strongest purgation in the world.

I hear certain philosophers who answer me that all this discourse on the art that shines in the universe is but a continued sophism.

His discourse is substance, not all rhetoric, and he utters more things than words.

All discourse of which others cannot partake, is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but what never fails to excite very keen resentment, an insolent assertion of superiority, and a triumph over less enlightened understandings.

His "God the father turns a school divine:" his Christ, as has been wittily said, is "God's good boy:" the discourses of Raphael to Adam are scholastic lectures: Adam himself is too sophisticated for the state of innocence, and Eve is somewhat insipid.

Discourses of Morality, and Reflections upon human Nature, are the best Means we can make use of to improve our Minds, and gain a true Knowledge of our selves, and consequently to recover our Souls out of the Vice, Ignorance, and Prejudice, which naturally cleave to them.

The discourse which he delivered to Parliament in 1848 was diffuse and abject, but his articles, first printed in the Correspondant and since collected into books, were mordant and discerning under the exaggerated politeness of their form.

Latin poetry and prose, the discourses of Cicero, rhetoric, and church history were important subjects in his curriculum.

He is sworn to Galen and Hippocrates, as university men to their statutes, though they never saw them; and his discourse is all aphorisms, though his reading be only Alexis of Piedmont, or the Regiment of Health.

Even under this aversion to reason, as applied to religious grounds, a very important truth lurks: and the mistake (a very dangerous one I admit,) lies in the confounding two very different faculties of the mind under one and the same name;the pure reason or 'vis scientifica'; and the discourse, or prudential power, the proper objects of which are the 'phænomena' of sensuous experience.

Paul's masterly discourse on Mars Hill was an obvious failure, so far as any immediate impression was concerned.

Meres's Discourse is, like the rest of his work, mainly a compilation, with additions and remarks of his own.

A Discourse of English Poetrie (1586) by the laborious but uninspired tutor, William Webbe, is not a defense; but interspersed among his remarks advocating the reformed versifying, and his arid catalog of poets, ancient and modern, is a good deal about the moral purpose and value of poetry.

If they read a book at any time (si quod est interim otii a venatu, poculis, alea, scortis) 'tis an English Chronicle, St. Huon of Bordeaux, Amadis de Gaul, &c., a play-book, or some pamphlet of news, and that at such seasons only, when they cannot stir abroad, to drive away time, [2074]their sole discourse is dogs, hawks, horses, and what news?

" Dr. Thornwell's "Discourses on Truth" are a thorough treatment of the obligation of veracity and the sin of lying.

His discourse is the news that he hath gathered in his walk, and for other matters his discretion is, that he will only what he can, that is, say nothing.

Speech has nothing to do with sentiment, it is true, but a discourse is not all sentiment; there is a place for reason, for demonstration, and upon this ground gesture has nothing to do; the entire work here falls back upon speech.

Sometimes his discourses are only common-place, wordy, and featherless; but in the general run he is much above the average of sermonisers.

To be sure, discourse may be a pleasure to us, because it is a means of self-expression, but it is useful to us because it conveys ideas to that other somebody who hears or reads it.

A discourse, or narration, of any length, is but a series of sentences; which, when written, must be separated by the proper points, that the meaning and relation of all the words may be quickly and clearly perceived by the reader, and the whole be uttered as the sense requires.

Her discourses are fables, her vows dissimulations, her conceits subtleties, and her contents varieties.

We shall find that his discourses were thunder and lightning in the congregation, as the Greeks used to say concerning one of their orators.

I make these, as I conceive, necessary digressions, because a discourse on Moses would be pointless without them; at best only a survey of that marvellous and favored legislator from the standpoint of secular history.

26 Metaphors for  discoursing