History of Public Speaking in AmericaAllyn and Bacon, 1965 - 566 pages |
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... mind , his quickness of perception - which helped make him a great debater - his patriotic devotion , and his driving ambition to excel . Among all his voluminous self - revelatory diary entries , the one for May 16 , 1792 , seems best ...
... mind , his quickness of perception - which helped make him a great debater - his patriotic devotion , and his driving ambition to excel . Among all his voluminous self - revelatory diary entries , the one for May 16 , 1792 , seems best ...
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... mind became for the moment the vent of the mind of humanity.10 Clubs , first delivered at Freeman Place Chapel , Boston , in the Spring of 1859 : He that can define , he that can answer a question so as to admit of no further answer ...
... mind became for the moment the vent of the mind of humanity.10 Clubs , first delivered at Freeman Place Chapel , Boston , in the Spring of 1859 : He that can define , he that can answer a question so as to admit of no further answer ...
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... mind ; and I absorb certain secrets of their power , whatever may be its quality , which I could not have detected in their works . Converse , converse , CONVERSE with living men , face to face , and mind to mind - that is one of the ...
... mind ; and I absorb certain secrets of their power , whatever may be its quality , which I could not have detected in their works . Converse , converse , CONVERSE with living men , face to face , and mind to mind - that is one of the ...
Contents
Groping Toward Independence | 1 |
The Role of the Preachers | 9 |
The Mather Dynasty | 18 |
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