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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... brought about a reformation by his speech before the Diet of Worms ; Patrick Henry aroused his countrymen by his eloquence ; Daniel O'Connell accomplished Catholic emancipation in Great Britain by means of presenting the cause of ...
... brought about a reformation by his speech before the Diet of Worms ; Patrick Henry aroused his countrymen by his eloquence ; Daniel O'Connell accomplished Catholic emancipation in Great Britain by means of presenting the cause of ...
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... brought about an effective close to a well - knit sentence . Another well - arranged sentence for cumulative force is the following from the same speech : After Washington , and the inflexible Adams , Henry , and the fearless Hamilton ...
... brought about an effective close to a well - knit sentence . Another well - arranged sentence for cumulative force is the following from the same speech : After Washington , and the inflexible Adams , Henry , and the fearless Hamilton ...
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... brought out regarding the acts of the insurgents and the claims of the Government . One of the most expressive and best constructed sentences in English literature is the following from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address : The world will ...
... brought out regarding the acts of the insurgents and the claims of the Government . One of the most expressive and best constructed sentences in English literature is the following from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address : The world will ...
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... brought; he has them untied; he gives to each of them a single twig; he orders them to be broken—and it is done with facility. He next orders the twigs to be united in a bundle, and orders each of them to try their strength upon it ...
... brought; he has them untied; he gives to each of them a single twig; he orders them to be broken—and it is done with facility. He next orders the twigs to be united in a bundle, and orders each of them to try their strength upon it ...
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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