How to Speak in PublicFunk & Wagnalls Company, 1906 - 533 pages |
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... sense of shame , anger , or other cause eventuating in a paresis of the uasomotor filaments of the facial capillaries where , being divested of their elasticity , they are suffused with radiant , aerated , com- pound nutritive ...
... sense of shame , anger , or other cause eventuating in a paresis of the uasomotor filaments of the facial capillaries where , being divested of their elasticity , they are suffused with radiant , aerated , com- pound nutritive ...
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... senses are overwhelmed . And now it is winding up in full jubilee , it is rising from earth to heaven ; the very soul seems wrapt away and floating upward on this swelling tide of harmony . WASHINGTON IRVING . " Westminster Abbey " in ...
... senses are overwhelmed . And now it is winding up in full jubilee , it is rising from earth to heaven ; the very soul seems wrapt away and floating upward on this swelling tide of harmony . WASHINGTON IRVING . " Westminster Abbey " in ...
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... senses , that you may the better judge . If there be any in this assembly , any dear friend of Cæsar's , to him I say that Brutus ' love to Cæsar was no less than his . If , then , that friend demand why Brutus rose against Cæsar , this ...
... senses , that you may the better judge . If there be any in this assembly , any dear friend of Cæsar's , to him I say that Brutus ' love to Cæsar was no less than his . If , then , that friend demand why Brutus rose against Cæsar , this ...
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... senses , shuts my sight , Drowns my spirit , draws my breath ? ANON . Tell me , my soul ! can this be death ? " The Dying Christian to his Soul . " POPE . 4. Brutus . How ill this taper burns ! -Ha 48 HOW TO SPEAK IN PUBLIC.
... senses , shuts my sight , Drowns my spirit , draws my breath ? ANON . Tell me , my soul ! can this be death ? " The Dying Christian to his Soul . " POPE . 4. Brutus . How ill this taper burns ! -Ha 48 HOW TO SPEAK IN PUBLIC.
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... sense Of that which is of all Creator and Defence . BYRON . 3. Soldiers ! You are now within a few steps of the enemy's outpost . Our scouts report them as slumbering in parties around their watch - fires , and utterly unprepared for ...
... sense Of that which is of all Creator and Defence . BYRON . 3. Soldiers ! You are now within a few steps of the enemy's outpost . Our scouts report them as slumbering in parties around their watch - fires , and utterly unprepared for ...
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Common terms and phrases
Annabel Lee arms audience awful beauty BEECHER bells Blessed blood blow breath Brutus Catiline circumflex circumflex inflection clouds dark dead death deep DEMOSTHENES earth expression eyes face falling inflection father fear feeling Fezziwig Freedom calls gentle GEORGE CROLY gesture give glory glottis hand hast hath head hear heart heaven Henry Ward Beecher honor human Hurrah Inhale Jean Valjean Julius Cæsar King larynx liberty light lips live look lord loud Macbeth ment Merchant of Venice mind mouth nation nature never night o'er orator Paul Revere's Ride pause peace pitch practise rising inflection sentence SHAKESPEARE silence sleep smile soft palate soul sound speak speaker speech spirit stand sweet tell thee things Thou art thought tion tongue truth vocal voice Warren Hastings waves wind words
Popular passages
Page 441 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips - 'The foe! they come! they come!' And wild and high the 'Cameron's gathering
Page 61 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 162 - Grow old along with me ! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made : Our times are in His hand Who saith, "A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God : see all, nor be afraid!
Page 440 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.— But hark!
Page 57 - Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" I shrieked, upstarting "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore ! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken ! Leave my loneliness unbroken! quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
Page 172 - Julius bleed for justice' sake ? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice ? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers, shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honours For so much trash as may be grasped thus?
Page 230 - German despot ; your attempts will be for ever vain and impotent — doubly so, indeed, from this mercenary aid on which you rely; for it irritates, to an incurable resentment, the minds of your adversaries, to overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder, devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty. If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms : Never, never, never...
Page 125 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 159 - Here Captain! dear Father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck, You've fallen cold and dead. My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will, The ship is...
Page 308 - It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world, so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it, for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion, it is unnecessary, and would be unwise to extend...