Modern Eloquence, Volume 12Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1903 |
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Page 428
... fact , very few of the great orators have had loud voices , or if they did have them , they did not employ them . I am told that Wendell Phillips seldom spoke in any voice but a conversational tone , and yet he was able to make an ...
... fact , very few of the great orators have had loud voices , or if they did have them , they did not employ them . I am told that Wendell Phillips seldom spoke in any voice but a conversational tone , and yet he was able to make an ...
Page 430
... fact way , walked to the footlights and , looking the audi- ence frankly in the eyes , began without an instant's hesita- tion and in a voice precisely as if he were talking to a friend . But he was as dramatic at his climax as Edwin ...
... fact way , walked to the footlights and , looking the audi- ence frankly in the eyes , began without an instant's hesita- tion and in a voice precisely as if he were talking to a friend . But he was as dramatic at his climax as Edwin ...
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... facts . And as to style , seek only to be clear . Nothing else is important . Consider the method of the Saviour in His addresses to the people . Next to Him , those perfect specimens of the art of putting things are the speeches and ...
... facts . And as to style , seek only to be clear . Nothing else is important . Consider the method of the Saviour in His addresses to the people . Next to Him , those perfect specimens of the art of putting things are the speeches and ...
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... fact I look largely for the suppression of this rebel- lion and the overthrow of this revolution . They have got to the end of their conscription ; we have not begun ours . They have got to the end of their national credit ; we have not ...
... fact I look largely for the suppression of this rebel- lion and the overthrow of this revolution . They have got to the end of their conscription ; we have not begun ours . They have got to the end of their national credit ; we have not ...
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... fact of this war . I had , somehow , got an inkling of the various things that came up in pre- vious instances , so I was not very much surprised at them ; but when I so read a statement , deliberately put forward , that here in New ...
... fact of this war . I had , somehow , got an inkling of the various things that came up in pre- vious instances , so I was not very much surprised at them ; but when I so read a statement , deliberately put forward , that here in New ...
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