Modern Eloquence, Volume 12Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1903 |
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Page 430
... never dan- gerous , never sincere . The same thing is true in speech . There have only been two or three roarers in effective ora- tory - Mirabeau , by all accounts ; and Demosthenes , if Eschines is to be believed , which I think he is ...
... never dan- gerous , never sincere . The same thing is true in speech . There have only been two or three roarers in effective ora- tory - Mirabeau , by all accounts ; and Demosthenes , if Eschines is to be believed , which I think he is ...
Page 433
... never decline until men cease to have ears to hear . How hard it is to read a speech - how delightful to listen . Speak- ing is nature's method of instruction . It begins with the mother to child ; it continues with teacher to pupil ...
... never decline until men cease to have ears to hear . How hard it is to read a speech - how delightful to listen . Speak- ing is nature's method of instruction . It begins with the mother to child ; it continues with teacher to pupil ...
Page 434
... never wrote a single epistle - no , not even a single word . He spoke His message . Think of a gospel announced to the world in cold type ! Absurd , is it not ? It may be repeated in that form ; but its initial power must come from the ...
... never wrote a single epistle - no , not even a single word . He spoke His message . Think of a gospel announced to the world in cold type ! Absurd , is it not ? It may be repeated in that form ; but its initial power must come from the ...
Page 435
... never has the power of living and original thinking . The true way is to take the elements of the problem in hand , and , without consulting a book or an opinion , reason out from the very elements of the problem itself your solu- tion ...
... never has the power of living and original thinking . The true way is to take the elements of the problem in hand , and , without consulting a book or an opinion , reason out from the very elements of the problem itself your solu- tion ...
Page 448
... never learn anything , it would seem to me , from reading history . I speak of myself as well as you I have shared in that impatience myself . I have shared in your various matters of disappointment . I was saying but the other day to a ...
... never learn anything , it would seem to me , from reading history . I speak of myself as well as you I have shared in that impatience myself . I have shared in your various matters of disappointment . I was saying but the other day to a ...
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