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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... human art . From this fact we can but conclude that the necessary equipment for the higher type of oratory demands far more than mere readiness in speech , grace in gesture , and fluent command of language . Back of these ...
... human art . From this fact we can but conclude that the necessary equipment for the higher type of oratory demands far more than mere readiness in speech , grace in gesture , and fluent command of language . Back of these ...
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... human thought , it must be read and weighed by the mind of the audi- tor when in a cool and critical state . Under such conditions the verdict is often changed and the weakness and emptiness of what may have seemed irrefutable arguments ...
... human thought , it must be read and weighed by the mind of the audi- tor when in a cool and critical state . Under such conditions the verdict is often changed and the weakness and emptiness of what may have seemed irrefutable arguments ...
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... human thought , such as those of the parliament- ary chamber , the political rostrum , the bar , the pulpit , the lecture platform and the social hall . But many of these lack interest to the general reader . In making selections from ...
... human thought , such as those of the parliament- ary chamber , the political rostrum , the bar , the pulpit , the lecture platform and the social hall . But many of these lack interest to the general reader . In making selections from ...
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... human effort , its great triumphs have been dependent upon great exigencies in human affairs . While orators have been as numerous almost as autumn leaves , world - famous orations seem as few as the planets of our solar system . The ...
... human effort , its great triumphs have been dependent upon great exigencies in human affairs . While orators have been as numerous almost as autumn leaves , world - famous orations seem as few as the planets of our solar system . The ...
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... and knows not what to do with it . The human heart was not made for the residence of such an inhabitant . It finds itself preyed on by a torment , JOHN C. CALHOUN Few Orators in American History commanded more The Secret of Murder 88.
... and knows not what to do with it . The human heart was not made for the residence of such an inhabitant . It finds itself preyed on by a torment , JOHN C. CALHOUN Few Orators in American History commanded more The Secret of Murder 88.
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