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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... 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 student ...
... 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 student ...
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... speaker, on the other hand, addresses an audience of only a few thousand, but of that number, if the speaker is deserving of the name, he will influence a majority. Suppose he convinces and persuades only one hundred, the one hundred ...
... speaker, on the other hand, addresses an audience of only a few thousand, but of that number, if the speaker is deserving of the name, he will influence a majority. Suppose he convinces and persuades only one hundred, the one hundred ...
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... speaker who means what he says . -JOHN OLIVER Hobbes ( MRS . CRAIGIE ) For who can suppose amid the great multitude of students , the utmost abundance of masters , the most eminent geniuses among men , the infinite variety of causes ...
... speaker who means what he says . -JOHN OLIVER Hobbes ( MRS . CRAIGIE ) For who can suppose amid the great multitude of students , the utmost abundance of masters , the most eminent geniuses among men , the infinite variety of causes ...
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... speaker ? This might be aptly answered by putting another question , How did other men become public speakers ? because by a careful study of the means they employed , others may become equally proficient . From the beginning of oratory ...
... speaker ? This might be aptly answered by putting another question , How did other men become public speakers ? because by a careful study of the means they employed , others may become equally proficient . From the beginning of oratory ...
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... speakers, for it is as impossible to have oratory without men who understand the rules of composition as it is to have orators without oratory. Matter that is to be spoken must not merely be well written, it must be constructed ...
... speakers, for it is as impossible to have oratory without men who understand the rules of composition as it is to have orators without oratory. Matter that is to be spoken must not merely be well written, it must be constructed ...
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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