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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... speaker . It has , therefore , been practiced for ages past , as well among savage and barbarous tribes as among civilized peoples , in evidence of which may be mentioned the striking examples of native ora- tory attributed to the ...
... speaker . It has , therefore , been practiced for ages past , as well among savage and barbarous tribes as among civilized peoples , in evidence of which may be mentioned the striking examples of native ora- tory attributed to the ...
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... speaker's manner and the external aids to eloquence , the reader can calmly measure and weigh 1.is words and thoughts , with competence to reject the vapid example of speech - making and give its just pre - eminence to the truly great ...
... speaker's manner and the external aids to eloquence , the reader can calmly measure and weigh 1.is words and thoughts , with competence to reject the vapid example of speech - making and give its just pre - eminence to the truly great ...
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... 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 THE CHARACTERISTICS OF ...
... 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 THE CHARACTERISTICS OF ...
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... 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 conditions 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 conditions the ...
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... SPEAKERS ON FESTIVE OCCASIONS PAGE 336 337 338 339 340 342 343 345 346 348 349 352 353 Chauncey M. Depew The New Netherlands 356 Our English Visitors 357 Liberty Enlightening the World 358 Whitelaw Reid 359 The Press - Right or Wrong ...
... SPEAKERS ON FESTIVE OCCASIONS PAGE 336 337 338 339 340 342 343 345 346 348 349 352 353 Chauncey M. Depew The New Netherlands 356 Our English Visitors 357 Liberty Enlightening the World 358 Whitelaw Reid 359 The Press - Right or Wrong ...
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