Great Speeches and how to Make ThemFunk & Wagnalls Company, 1911 - 391 pages |
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... hearers could not cough or look aside without loss . Such a man makes every word count . Fully real- izing that " No train of thought is strengthened by the addi- tion of those arguments that , like camp - followers , swell the number ...
... hearers could not cough or look aside without loss . Such a man makes every word count . Fully real- izing that " No train of thought is strengthened by the addi- tion of those arguments that , like camp - followers , swell the number ...
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... hearers to act he is not in the highest sense an orator . The speaker can best be in earnest by aiming at the motives which produce earnest- ness . He must himself be moved before he attempts to move others . The purpose of his speaking ...
... hearers to act he is not in the highest sense an orator . The speaker can best be in earnest by aiming at the motives which produce earnest- ness . He must himself be moved before he attempts to move others . The purpose of his speaking ...
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... hearers . The highest oratorical talents will not atone for an inappropriate choice of subject . There are hundreds of vital topics , in which most men are more or less interested . A selection may be made from these : The Unemployed ...
... hearers . The highest oratorical talents will not atone for an inappropriate choice of subject . There are hundreds of vital topics , in which most men are more or less interested . A selection may be made from these : The Unemployed ...
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... hearers . It is better , therefore , to develop a few thoughts thoroughly than to attempt to cover at one time too large a field . Many failures of public speakers have been due to saying too much rather than too little , and an ...
... hearers . It is better , therefore , to develop a few thoughts thoroughly than to attempt to cover at one time too large a field . Many failures of public speakers have been due to saying too much rather than too little , and an ...
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... hearer . Finally the speaker reaches the culminating- point of his address , drives home his message by the full ... hearers . It is an influence principally received from his audience , so to speak , in vapor , which he pours back ...
... hearer . Finally the speaker reaches the culminating- point of his address , drives home his message by the full ... hearers . It is an influence principally received from his audience , so to speak , in vapor , which he pours back ...
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Page 321 - Union to be dissolved; 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 the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 50 - I appeal to the wisdom and the law of this learned bench to defend and support the justice of their country. I call upon the bishops...
Page 131 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Page 326 - ... in such a case, we find it impossible not to believe that Stephen and Franklin, and Roger and James all understood one another from the beginning, and all worked upon a common plan or draft drawn up before the first blow was struck.
Page 136 - True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion.
Page 65 - Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will...
Page 122 - Every year of its duration has teemed with fresh proofs of its utility and its blessings ; and although our territory has stretched out wider and wider, and our population spread farther and farther, they have not outrun its protection or its benefits. It has been to us all a copious fountain of national, social, and personal happiness.
Page 351 - Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Page 321 - I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, 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 7 - It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up. There were some schools, so called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond "readin', writin', and cipherin'