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This is a long sentence but a strong one and it is constructed so as to bring to the
mind of the listener the picture which the speaker possessed . Notice that if the
parenthetical phrases , which aid so much in picturing the scene , were omitted ...
This is a long sentence but a strong one and it is constructed so as to bring to the
mind of the listener the picture which the speaker possessed . Notice that if the
parenthetical phrases , which aid so much in picturing the scene , were omitted ...
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than half its present size , but the vividness of the picture would disappear with
the curtailing of the sentence . Here is the main idea : “ On this question of
principle they raised their flag against a power to which Rome is not to be
compared - a ...
than half its present size , but the vividness of the picture would disappear with
the curtailing of the sentence . Here is the main idea : “ On this question of
principle they raised their flag against a power to which Rome is not to be
compared - a ...
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... is a picture drawn with a few words — “ because they live in the gray twilight
that knows neither victory nor defeat . " William H. Taft , speaking at the unveiling
of Lincoln's statue at Frankfort , Kentucky , on November 8 , 1911 , summed up
the ...
... is a picture drawn with a few words — “ because they live in the gray twilight
that knows neither victory nor defeat . " William H. Taft , speaking at the unveiling
of Lincoln's statue at Frankfort , Kentucky , on November 8 , 1911 , summed up
the ...
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WORD - PICTURES Besides the use of inflection , emphasis , and the
arrangement of words , orators use word - pictures for conveying their ideas ; as ,
When I look around and see our prosperity in everything 14 The Spoken Word.
WORD - PICTURES Besides the use of inflection , emphasis , and the
arrangement of words , orators use word - pictures for conveying their ideas ; as ,
When I look around and see our prosperity in everything 14 The Spoken Word.
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The object in employing word - pictures is to convey an idea by means of
suggestion , and , when so used , they become powerful weapons in the hands of
a speaker . Here is another excellent illustration : Books are for the scholar's idle
times ...
The object in employing word - pictures is to convey an idea by means of
suggestion , and , when so used , they become powerful weapons in the hands of
a speaker . Here is another excellent illustration : Books are for the scholar's idle
times ...
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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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