Modern Eloquence, Volume 4Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page v
... ideas would have left the old methods stranded high up on the shores of time . The earliest method of spreading information and moulding opinions , however , has not passed away . Men still talk to each other face to face , and oratory ...
... ideas would have left the old methods stranded high up on the shores of time . The earliest method of spreading information and moulding opinions , however , has not passed away . Men still talk to each other face to face , and oratory ...
Page ix
... ideas he may have of life and duty . Of course , from all this effort on the part of orators and all this endurance on the part of the people , there comes much diffusion of knowledge and a spread of thought and of new ideas which would ...
... ideas he may have of life and duty . Of course , from all this effort on the part of orators and all this endurance on the part of the people , there comes much diffusion of knowledge and a spread of thought and of new ideas which would ...
Page xiii
... idea that those who are gifted with oratorical power have few other gifts , that their influence perishes with the moving of popular audiences and that they have not in other spheres the power they show in arousing the multitude . In ...
... idea that those who are gifted with oratorical power have few other gifts , that their influence perishes with the moving of popular audiences and that they have not in other spheres the power they show in arousing the multitude . In ...
Page xv
... idea of education . It is also true , however , that with the changes of methods and resources , the lecture system is now to be classed as a part of the system of public entertainment . A good lecturer now may teach or not , but he ...
... idea of education . It is also true , however , that with the changes of methods and resources , the lecture system is now to be classed as a part of the system of public entertainment . A good lecturer now may teach or not , but he ...
Page xx
... idea of bringing into a focus the brilliant rays of his conversation , and in the year 1807 announced a series of lectures by him to be delivered in the daytime on " Poetry and Fine Arts . " These lectures were well attended by people ...
... idea of bringing into a focus the brilliant rays of his conversation , and in the year 1807 announced a series of lectures by him to be delivered in the daytime on " Poetry and Fine Arts . " These lectures were well attended by people ...
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