Speech CompositionAppleton-Century-Crofts, 1953 - 385 pages |
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Page 71
... cause that would bear examination he was perfectly willing to have it spoken about . ( Applause . ) And when in Manchester I saw those huge placards , " Who is Henry Ward Beecher ? " ( laughter , cries of " quite right , " and applause ) ...
... cause that would bear examination he was perfectly willing to have it spoken about . ( Applause . ) And when in Manchester I saw those huge placards , " Who is Henry Ward Beecher ? " ( laughter , cries of " quite right , " and applause ) ...
Page 89
... cause they are sound and practical . Men do not fight and die because they cherish a cause as " practical , " but because they identify such a cause with conquest , leadership , wealth , patriot- ism , honor , or some other deep ...
... cause they are sound and practical . Men do not fight and die because they cherish a cause as " practical , " but because they identify such a cause with conquest , leadership , wealth , patriot- ism , honor , or some other deep ...
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... causes for this exceptional superiority of certain long words . We may ascribe it partly to the fact that a voluminous ... cause is that a long word ( of which the latter syllables are generally inferred as soon as the first are spoken ) ...
... causes for this exceptional superiority of certain long words . We may ascribe it partly to the fact that a voluminous ... cause is that a long word ( of which the latter syllables are generally inferred as soon as the first are spoken ) ...
Contents
THE SEVEN Lamps OF SPEECH Development | 3 |
THE SPEAKERS PERSONAL PROBLEMS | 9 |
THE SPEECH PURPOSE | 32 |
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accept action Æsop American appeal argument arouse arrangement attention audi audience Beecher believe Chapter conclusion course Daniel O'Connell Daniel Webster desire discussion effective elements emotional ence eulogy facts feel Franklin D George William Curtis give Harry Emerson Fosdick hear hearers Henry Ward Beecher human wants humor idea illustration impelling important influence interest Journal of Speech jury Kallikak family kind lecture listeners logical main heads means ment mental method mind motives never occasion orator persuasion Phillips Brooks picture Platform Project political campaign speech present principle problem proposition Psychology question Quintilian radio reason response Rufus Choate Seminar Project sentence sermon social speaking specific speech situation speeches of courtesy stereotypes student suggestion things thought tion topic vivid vocabulary vote Wendell Phillips whole William Jennings Bryan Woodrow Wilson words write York young speaker