Great Speeches and how to Make ThemFunk & Wagnalls Company, 1911 - 391 pages |
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... sense of responsibility that I receive at your hands these insignia of the office to which the governing boards have chosen me . You have charged me with a great trust , second in importance to no other , for the education of American ...
... sense of responsibility that I receive at your hands these insignia of the office to which the governing boards have chosen me . You have charged me with a great trust , second in importance to no other , for the education of American ...
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... 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 should be clearly defined in his own ...
... 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 should be clearly defined in his own ...
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... sense and its stimulating spirit : Take it for granted that there is no excellence without great labor . No mere aspirations for eminence , however ardent , will do the business . Wishing , and sighing , and imagining , and dreaming of ...
... sense and its stimulating spirit : Take it for granted that there is no excellence without great labor . No mere aspirations for eminence , however ardent , will do the business . Wishing , and sighing , and imagining , and dreaming of ...
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... sense of shame , tho it is impossible that such should not be the case ; for the better qualified a man is to speak , the more he fears the difficulties of speaking , the uncertain success of a speech , and the expectation of the ...
... sense of shame , tho it is impossible that such should not be the case ; for the better qualified a man is to speak , the more he fears the difficulties of speaking , the uncertain success of a speech , and the expectation of the ...
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Grenville Kleiser. What an audience really wants from the speaker is com- mon sense , the power of clear statement , and logical de- velopment of ideas . The highest endowments of voice and manner will not make up for lack of these ...
Grenville Kleiser. What an audience really wants from the speaker is com- mon sense , the power of clear statement , and logical de- velopment of ideas . The highest endowments of voice and manner will not make up for lack of these ...
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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'