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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... possess at this time . He employs the series , the contrasts ( single , double , and triple ) , the conditional , the negative , the positive , and , in fact , all the known forms of arranging words so as to make them best express the ...
... possess at this time . He employs the series , the contrasts ( single , double , and triple ) , the conditional , the negative , the positive , and , in fact , all the known forms of arranging words so as to make them best express the ...
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... possessed in all times for the making of orators. It is essential that the arts of construction and composition should be diligently studied by speakers, for it is as impossible to have oratory without men who understand the rules of ...
... possessed in all times for the making of orators. It is essential that the arts of construction and composition should be diligently studied by speakers, for it is as impossible to have oratory without men who understand the rules of ...
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... 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 , but the vividness of the picture would disappear with the ...
... 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 , but the vividness of the picture would disappear with the ...
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... possessed by speakers of the present time. In the manner of its construction, this extract from the speech of Demosthenes does not differ from the speeches of Seward, Webster, Emerson, and Lincoln which are here quoted, as they all ...
... possessed by speakers of the present time. In the manner of its construction, this extract from the speech of Demosthenes does not differ from the speeches of Seward, Webster, Emerson, and Lincoln which are here quoted, as they all ...
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... possess it. Were this extract spoken vehemently instead of argumentatively, it would take the falling inflection on all its members; but it is clearly intended to be negatively spoken, because the orator immediately follows it with ...
... possess it. Were this extract spoken vehemently instead of argumentatively, it would take the falling inflection on all its members; but it is clearly intended to be negatively spoken, because the orator immediately follows it with ...
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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