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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... things are disgraces . Then follows a series of contrasts : " Man and woman , word and deed , city and government ” which , he says , " we ought to praise , " and then qualifies this positive with the conditional , “ if praiseworthy ...
... things are disgraces . Then follows a series of contrasts : " Man and woman , word and deed , city and government ” which , he says , " we ought to praise , " and then qualifies this positive with the conditional , “ if praiseworthy ...
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... things , to win glorious triumphs , even though checkered by failure , than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much , because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat . Col ...
... things , to win glorious triumphs , even though checkered by failure , than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much , because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat . Col ...
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... things by means of pictures. Writers of good prose, as well as poets, use the figure of speech for creating mental images by means of the written word, and the speaker who employs the spoken word for producing like results will surely ...
... things by means of pictures. Writers of good prose, as well as poets, use the figure of speech for creating mental images by means of the written word, and the speaker who employs the spoken word for producing like results will surely ...
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... things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables: and without a parable spoke he not unto them. Henry Ward Beecher ... thing, if running water, if burning coal, if crystals, if alkalies, in their several fashions, say what I say, it ...
... things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables: and without a parable spoke he not unto them. Henry Ward Beecher ... thing, if running water, if burning coal, if crystals, if alkalies, in their several fashions, say what I say, it ...
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... thing of value in every art - individuality ; but one who is taught by principle , as well as by example , may far excel his preceptor . Issues and problems change , orators pass into the realm of shade ; but the principles of oratory ...
... thing of value in every art - individuality ; but one who is taught by principle , as well as by example , may far excel his preceptor . Issues and problems change , orators pass into the realm of shade ; but the principles of oratory ...
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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