How to Master the Spoken Word: Designed as a Self-Instructor for all who would Excel in the Art of Public SpeakingGood Press, 2019 M12 24 - 302 pages This is a genuine twentieth-century self-help/teach-yourself book. It was written in 1913 and sets out to provide the reader with the tools to make him or her a more eloquent, persuasive and confident public speaker. |
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... Suppose he convinces and persuades only one hundred, the one hundred are so thoroughly brought into accord with the speaker that they go out into the world and, by word of mouth, bring ten times their number to the same way of thinking .
... Suppose he convinces and persuades only one hundred, the one hundred are so thoroughly brought into accord with the speaker that they go out into the world and, by word of mouth, bring ten times their number to the same way of thinking .
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... bring him business if he cannot make a speech . -ABRAHAM LINCOLN The cultivated voice is like an orchestra . It ranges high , intermediate or low , unconsciously to him who uses it , and men listen , unaware that they have been ...
... bring him business if he cannot make a speech . -ABRAHAM LINCOLN The cultivated voice is like an orchestra . It ranges high , intermediate or low , unconsciously to him who uses it , and men listen , unaware that they have been ...
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... bring to the mind of the listener the picture which the speaker possessed . Notice that if the parenthetical phrases , which aid so much in picturing the scene , were omitted , the sentence would not be more than half its present size ...
... bring to the mind of the listener the picture which the speaker possessed . Notice that if the parenthetical phrases , which aid so much in picturing the scene , were omitted , the sentence would not be more than half its present size ...
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... brings the whole scene before us in a moment . We see the hills of Virginia , dotted over with the graves of the dead soldiers ; groups of grizzled veterans , the remnant of that wonderful fighting machine that had followed the ill ...
... brings the whole scene before us in a moment . We see the hills of Virginia , dotted over with the graves of the dead soldiers ; groups of grizzled veterans , the remnant of that wonderful fighting machine that had followed the ill ...
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Contents
oratorical training as given in the Lawrence School of New York Finally | |
properly put the meaning into words by aid of inflection emphasis | |
CHAPTER I | |
finance labor religion conservation of natural resources and civic | |
CHAPTER VII | |
would appear scant room for another but as they all treat mainly of | |
CHAPTER X | |
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