Five-minute Declamations, Volume 1Walter K. Fobes Lee and Shepard, 1885 |
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... speaking . Part Second is a system of vocal exercises for daily practice . Part Third , the application of the vocal exercises to the reading of short extracts , showing the effect when thus applied . Part Fourth is a chapter giving ...
... speaking . Part Second is a system of vocal exercises for daily practice . Part Third , the application of the vocal exercises to the reading of short extracts , showing the effect when thus applied . Part Fourth is a chapter giving ...
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... speaking on the tongue , beaming from the eye , informing every feature , and urging the whole man onward , right onward to his object , this , this is eloquence ; or , rather , it is something greater and higher than eloquence , it is ...
... speaking on the tongue , beaming from the eye , informing every feature , and urging the whole man onward , right onward to his object , this , this is eloquence ; or , rather , it is something greater and higher than eloquence , it is ...
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... speak the English tongue in my day ! " I think he was right . I remember the solemnity of Webster , the grace of Everett , the rhetoric of Choate ; I know the eloquence that lay hid in the iron logic of Cal- houn ; I have ' melted ...
... speak the English tongue in my day ! " I think he was right . I remember the solemnity of Webster , the grace of Everett , the rhetoric of Choate ; I know the eloquence that lay hid in the iron logic of Cal- houn ; I have ' melted ...
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... speak all over him . He had a voice that covered the gamut . I heard him once say , 66 I send my voice across the Atlantic , careering like the thunder - storm against the breeze , to tell the slave - holder of the Carolinas that God's ...
... speak all over him . He had a voice that covered the gamut . I heard him once say , 66 I send my voice across the Atlantic , careering like the thunder - storm against the breeze , to tell the slave - holder of the Carolinas that God's ...
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... speak ; more than all , and above all , he was master of himself . If there be one quality more than an- other in his character which may exercise a useful control over the men of the present hour , it is the total disregard of self ...
... speak ; more than all , and above all , he was master of himself . If there be one quality more than an- other in his character which may exercise a useful control over the men of the present hour , it is the total disregard of self ...
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