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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... 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 as well ...
... 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 as well ...
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... 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 decision of his own intellect.
... 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 decision of his own intellect.
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... voice rang out with " Cæsar had his Brutus , Charles the First his Cromwell , and George the Third " -Loud cries of " Treason ! Trea- son ! " from the frightened Burgesses interrupted the speaker . Heed- less of them he completed his ...
... voice rang out with " Cæsar had his Brutus , Charles the First his Cromwell , and George the Third " -Loud cries of " Treason ! Trea- son ! " from the frightened Burgesses interrupted the speaker . Heed- less of them he completed his ...
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... voice from heaven : " Will you permit our posterity to groan under the galling chains of our murderers ? Has our blood been expended in vain ? Is the only reward which our constancy , till death , has obtained for our country , that it ...
... voice from heaven : " Will you permit our posterity to groan under the galling chains of our murderers ? Has our blood been expended in vain ? Is the only reward which our constancy , till death , has obtained for our country , that it ...
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... voice of the orator was the weapon employed , and a long con- test on the rostrum preceded the appeal to arms . With the first of these periods we have already dealt . The second was dominated by two exciting political problems , the ...
... voice of the orator was the weapon employed , and a long con- test on the rostrum preceded the appeal to arms . With the first of these periods we have already dealt . The second was dominated by two exciting political problems , the ...
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