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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... powers of thought , logical consistency in reason- ing , quickness and brilliancy of conception , control of rhetorical expedients , and much of what is known as personal magnetism , iv THE CHARACTERISTICS OF ORATORY the ability to sway ...
... powers of thought , logical consistency in reason- ing , quickness and brilliancy of conception , control of rhetorical expedients , and much of what is known as personal magnetism , iv THE CHARACTERISTICS OF ORATORY the ability to sway ...
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... powers of voice , large training in the effective use of language , graceful and commanding attitudes and gestures , and all those personal qualities which give a living force to spoken words . The orator should have the art of the poet ...
... powers of voice , large training in the effective use of language , graceful and commanding attitudes and gestures , and all those personal qualities which give a living force to spoken words . The orator should have the art of the poet ...
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... 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 THE CHARACTERISTICS OF ORATORY ...
... 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 THE CHARACTERISTICS OF ORATORY ...
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... powers of the speaker . To learn what the oration really con- tains , and what force it has as a pure expression of human thought , it must be read and weighed by the mind of the audi- tor when in a cool and critical state . Under such ...
... powers of the speaker . To learn what the oration really con- tains , and what force it has as a pure expression of human thought , it must be read and weighed by the mind of the audi- tor when in a cool and critical state . Under such ...
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... powers which throws all others into the shade , and yields us the product of his intellect and force of expression at their highest elevation . This is , as a rule , a result of the incitement of some stirring contingency , some mighty ...
... powers which throws all others into the shade , and yields us the product of his intellect and force of expression at their highest elevation . This is , as a rule , a result of the incitement of some stirring contingency , some mighty ...
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