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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... 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 the iii.
... 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 the iii.
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... thoughts in a brilliant cloak of words and phrases , of controlling the feelings as well as appealing to the ... thought with which the intellect is furnished . THE EFFECT OF ORATORY An oration , to be fully appreciated , must be ...
... thoughts in a brilliant cloak of words and phrases , of controlling the feelings as well as appealing to the ... thought with which the intellect is furnished . THE EFFECT OF ORATORY An oration , to be fully appreciated , must be ...
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... thought expressed , and the 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 ...
... thought expressed , and the 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 ...
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... 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 are ...
... 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 are ...
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... 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 the ...
... 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 the ...
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