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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... effective speaker but also gives specific instructions as the employment of those means. This book is intended to take the place of the living teacher wherever the services of a thoroughly competent one cannot be secured, or where the ...
... effective speaker but also gives specific instructions as the employment of those means. This book is intended to take the place of the living teacher wherever the services of a thoroughly competent one cannot be secured, or where the ...
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... effective concluding series he uses : " A city is adorned by good citizenship , the body by beauty , the soul by wisdom , acts by virtue , and speech by truthfulness , " and he follows this sentence with the following one : " But the ...
... effective concluding series he uses : " A city is adorned by good citizenship , the body by beauty , the soul by wisdom , acts by virtue , and speech by truthfulness , " and he follows this sentence with the following one : " But the ...
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... oratory in order that it may sound well. Literature is to be read, oratory is to be spoken; consequently words intended to be spoken must be arranged in such a manner as to make them more effective when uttered by the living voice than.
... oratory in order that it may sound well. Literature is to be read, oratory is to be spoken; consequently words intended to be spoken must be arranged in such a manner as to make them more effective when uttered by the living voice than.
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... effective when uttered by the living voice than when they are set in dead type ; and this can only be done by gaining a mastery of the rules of oratory and applying them correctly . We are now dealing with the creation of oratory ...
... effective when uttered by the living voice than when they are set in dead type ; and this can only be done by gaining a mastery of the rules of oratory and applying them correctly . We are now dealing with the creation of oratory ...
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... effective mainly because of the masterful arrangement of the words . Emerson opens with the positive statement that " The theory of books is noble . " He follows this with the concluding series , " The scholar of the first age received ...
... effective mainly because of the masterful arrangement of the words . Emerson opens with the positive statement that " The theory of books is noble . " He follows this with the concluding series , " The scholar of the first age received ...
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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