Great Speeches and how to Make ThemFunk & Wagnalls Company, 1911 - 391 pages |
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... possible , as , indeed , almost all things are to a spirit bravely and firmly resolved . Franklin was a fine model of a prac- tical man , as contradistinguished from a visionary theorist , as men of genius are very apt to be . He was ...
... possible , as , indeed , almost all things are to a spirit bravely and firmly resolved . Franklin was a fine model of a prac- tical man , as contradistinguished from a visionary theorist , as men of genius are very apt to be . He was ...
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... possible each time . Then at the time of delivery , it will be found that the mind , having several sets of words from which to choose , will not be so likely to fail as it would if dependent upon only one set of phraseology . What has ...
... possible each time . Then at the time of delivery , it will be found that the mind , having several sets of words from which to choose , will not be so likely to fail as it would if dependent upon only one set of phraseology . What has ...
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... possible , as it is usually a tax upon the listener's attention , and , moreover , he dislikes too many details and explanations . Musical speaking tones depend upon gentle breathing . A speaker should accustom himself , through ...
... possible , as it is usually a tax upon the listener's attention , and , moreover , he dislikes too many details and explanations . Musical speaking tones depend upon gentle breathing . A speaker should accustom himself , through ...
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... possible , and then throw the paper into the fire . This he repeated several times , endeavoring at each effort to choose new phraseology , and destroying his composition as before . It is said that when he subsequently stood before his ...
... possible , and then throw the paper into the fire . This he repeated several times , endeavoring at each effort to choose new phraseology , and destroying his composition as before . It is said that when he subsequently stood before his ...
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... possible . Demos- thenes often used this figure , notably in his speech " On the Crown , " of which the following is an example : nence . Contrast now the circumstances of your life and mine , gently and with temper , Eschines ; and ...
... possible . Demos- thenes often used this figure , notably in his speech " On the Crown , " of which the following is an example : nence . Contrast now the circumstances of your life and mine , gently and with temper , Eschines ; and ...
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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'