Modern Eloquence, Volume 4Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page vi
... whole scene . The very postures , also , of the orator are displayed . But , however well any article may be written , and how- ever well any speech may be reported , there is a charm in the spoken word , in the utterance of the living ...
... whole scene . The very postures , also , of the orator are displayed . But , however well any article may be written , and how- ever well any speech may be reported , there is a charm in the spoken word , in the utterance of the living ...
Page vii
... whole deciding multitude ; for Athens in its prime had but twenty thousand free citizens ; eight thousand was good attendance ; and the human voice could have reached them all . In New York , Cooper Union holds less than three thousand ...
... whole deciding multitude ; for Athens in its prime had but twenty thousand free citizens ; eight thousand was good attendance ; and the human voice could have reached them all . In New York , Cooper Union holds less than three thousand ...
Page xxiii
... whole . business was nearly gratuitous . The cost of lighting and warming the church in which the lecture was delivered , possibly the cost of the traveling expenses of the lecturer -these were the only expenses which the lyceum com ...
... whole . business was nearly gratuitous . The cost of lighting and warming the church in which the lecture was delivered , possibly the cost of the traveling expenses of the lecturer -these were the only expenses which the lyceum com ...
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... that means nothing to him , but if you show him Wilkinson's " Herodotus " and he reads two pages of it , he will probably resolve to read the whole . 1 If the subject were American history , the lecturer ought xxvi EDWARD EVERETT HALE.
... that means nothing to him , but if you show him Wilkinson's " Herodotus " and he reads two pages of it , he will probably resolve to read the whole . 1 If the subject were American history , the lecturer ought xxvi EDWARD EVERETT HALE.
Page xxvii
... Botany , perhaps , or Geology . Each of these sub - courses would be delivered by one competent man . And it is supposed that for the time , he makes it his whole occupation . He would then LECTURES AND LECTURERS Xxxvii.
... Botany , perhaps , or Geology . Each of these sub - courses would be delivered by one competent man . And it is supposed that for the time , he makes it his whole occupation . He would then LECTURES AND LECTURERS Xxxvii.
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