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... for the Union this sentence : If the constellation is to be broken up , the stars ,
whether scattered widely apart or grouped in smaller clusters , will thenceforth
shed forth feeble , glimmering , and lurid lights . He opens with a conditional
phrase ...
... for the Union this sentence : If the constellation is to be broken up , the stars ,
whether scattered widely apart or grouped in smaller clusters , will thenceforth
shed forth feeble , glimmering , and lurid lights . He opens with a conditional
phrase ...
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... Whitney , and Morse the third . These , with the phrase “ have all performed
their parts , ” constitute a commencing series , the sense being completed by " let
the curtain fall . ” In his address , “ The American Scholar , " delivered at
Cambridge ...
... Whitney , and Morse the third . These , with the phrase “ have all performed
their parts , ” constitute a commencing series , the sense being completed by " let
the curtain fall . ” In his address , “ The American Scholar , " delivered at
Cambridge ...
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... paragraph ends with the conditional phrase and the concluding phrases , “
Precisely in proportion to the depth of mind from which it issued , so high does it
soar , so long does it sing , ” the concluding clause containing the double contrast
...
... paragraph ends with the conditional phrase and the concluding phrases , “
Precisely in proportion to the depth of mind from which it issued , so high does it
soar , so long does it sing , ” the concluding clause containing the double contrast
...
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The first phrase is conditional , the balance of the sentence is negative . The
orator ably opens with a condition because he is sure of all his listeners
subscribing to it , and then he says that if there is anything of a local nature that is
proper to ...
The first phrase is conditional , the balance of the sentence is negative . The
orator ably opens with a condition because he is sure of all his listeners
subscribing to it , and then he says that if there is anything of a local nature that is
proper to ...
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... the picture which the speaker possessed . Notice that if the parenthetical
phrases , which aid so much in picturing the scene , were omitted , the sentence
would not be more than half its present size , but the vividness of 10 The Spoken
Word.
... the picture which the speaker possessed . Notice that if the parenthetical
phrases , which aid so much in picturing the scene , were omitted , the sentence
would not be more than half its present size , but the vividness of 10 The Spoken
Word.
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Page 19 - Look here, upon this picture, and on this, The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. See what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command...
Page 31 - I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
Page 318 - I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery, will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in...
Page 382 - But where to find that happiest spot below, Who can direct, when all pretend to know? The shudd'ring tenant of the frigid zone Boldly proclaims that happiest spot his own...
Page 304 - What terms shall we find, which have not already been exhausted ? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves longer. Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the Ministry and Parliament. Our petitions...
Page 392 - In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me : As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Page 40 - THIS uncounted multitude before me, and around me, proves the feeling which the occasion has excited. These thousands of human faces, glowing with sympathy and joy, and, from the impulses of a common gratitude, turned reverently to heaven, in this spacious temple of the firmament, proclaim that the day, the place, and the purpose of our assembling have made a deep impression on our hearts.
Page 303 - This is no time for ceremony. The question before the house is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate.
Page 15 - But when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must, — when the soul seeth not, when the sun is hid, and the stars withdraw their shining, — we repair to the lamps which were kindled by their ray to guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn is. We hear that we may speak. The Arabian proverb says, "A fig tree looking on a fig tree, becometh fruitful.
Page 318 - If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it.
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| Title | How to Master the Spoken Word: Designed as a Self-instructor for All who Would Excel in the Art of Public Speaking |
| Author | Edwin Gordon Lawrence |
| Publisher | A. C. McClurg, 1913 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 31 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 420 pages |
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