Famous Orators of the World and Their Best Orations: Containing the Lives of the Greatest Orators and Their Best Orations from Earliest Times to Present Day, with an Account of Place and Time of Delivery of Each Oration and Explanatory Notes on Obscure Passages : Arranged in Eighteen Great Epochs Or Books1902 |
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... effect of steel engravings . Description of the Complete Book One large octavo volume , containing in all over seven hundred pages of masterpieces of eloquence of ancient and modern times , as spoken by the world's famous orators . It ...
... effect of steel engravings . Description of the Complete Book One large octavo volume , containing in all over seven hundred pages of masterpieces of eloquence of ancient and modern times , as spoken by the world's famous orators . It ...
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... EFFECT OF ORATORY An oration , to be fully appreciated , must be heard , not read . Much of what gave it force and effect is lost when it is committed to print . The living personality is gone — the flash- ing eye , the vibrating voice ...
... EFFECT OF ORATORY An oration , to be fully appreciated , must be heard , not read . Much of what gave it force and effect is lost when it is committed to print . The living personality is gone — the flash- ing eye , the vibrating voice ...
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... effect of delivery - the speaker's powers of elocution and the magnetic influence of voice and personality . The latter has often an immense effect , and the hearer fre- quently leaves the presence of the orator convinced against the vi ...
... effect of delivery - the speaker's powers of elocution and the magnetic influence of voice and personality . The latter has often an immense effect , and the hearer fre- quently leaves the presence of the orator convinced against the vi ...
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... effect . " While excelled as a reasoner by Webster , and surpassed in fiery earn- estness by Calhoun , none were his equals in grace of oratory and charm of manner . His speeches do not all read well . Many dull passages are met with ...
... effect . " While excelled as a reasoner by Webster , and surpassed in fiery earn- estness by Calhoun , none were his equals in grace of oratory and charm of manner . His speeches do not all read well . Many dull passages are met with ...
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... effect of conscience on the mind of the murderer in sentences of thrilling intensity . ] He has done the murder . No eye has seen him , no ear has heard him . The secret is his own , and it is safe ! Ah ! gentlemen , that was a dreadful ...
... effect of conscience on the mind of the murderer in sentences of thrilling intensity . ] He has done the murder . No eye has seen him , no ear has heard him . The secret is his own , and it is safe ! Ah ! gentlemen , that was a dreadful ...
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