How to Develop Power and Personality in SpeakingFunk & Wagnalls Company, 1908 - 422 pages |
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... law- yers , clergymen , teachers , business men , and others . Cloth , 543 pages , $ 1.25 , net ; by mail , $ 1.40 . HOW TO DEVELOP SELF - CONFIDENCE IN SPEECH AND MANNER . - A book of practical inspiration , trains men to rise above ...
... law- yers , clergymen , teachers , business men , and others . Cloth , 543 pages , $ 1.25 , net ; by mail , $ 1.40 . HOW TO DEVELOP SELF - CONFIDENCE IN SPEECH AND MANNER . - A book of practical inspiration , trains men to rise above ...
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... law is the truth . ” — Psalm cxix . , 142. " All thy commandments are truth . " - Psalm exix . , 151. " He that walketh uprightly , and worketh righteousness , and speaketh the truth in his heart . " - Psalm xv . , 2. " All the paths of ...
... law is the truth . ” — Psalm cxix . , 142. " All thy commandments are truth . " - Psalm exix . , 151. " He that walketh uprightly , and worketh righteousness , and speaketh the truth in his heart . " - Psalm xv . , 2. " All the paths of ...
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... laws . He subdues the face of the world , and compels the forces of the waters and the fires to be his servants . He makes laws , hurls empires down upon empires in the fields of war , speaks words that can not die , sings to distant ...
... laws . He subdues the face of the world , and compels the forces of the waters and the fires to be his servants . He makes laws , hurls empires down upon empires in the fields of war , speaks words that can not die , sings to distant ...
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... law , lah , lo , loo , practise first on a rising , then a falling inflection . The length of the inflection should vary from short , very short , long , and very long . All the keys of the speaking voice should be used , from high to ...
... law , lah , lo , loo , practise first on a rising , then a falling inflection . The length of the inflection should vary from short , very short , long , and very long . All the keys of the speaking voice should be used , from high to ...
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... law , As it is written in Thy holy book , Throughout all lands ; let every nation hear The high behest , and every heart obey ! " " The Excursion . " WILLIAM WORDSWORTH . 3. For mark well , even in the course of a single night , changes ...
... law , As it is written in Thy holy book , Throughout all lands ; let every nation hear The high behest , and every heart obey ! " " The Excursion . " WILLIAM WORDSWORTH . 3. For mark well , even in the course of a single night , changes ...
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Page 417 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Page 378 - THERE was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore ; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Page 109 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee...
Page 26 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.
Page 109 - Love thyself last : cherish those hearts that hate thee : Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues : be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's...
Page 369 - GROW old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in his hand Who saith, "A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!
Page 47 - Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air!
Page 398 - And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
Page 415 - WHEN all Thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys ; Transported with the view I'm lost In wonder, love and praise.
Page 389 - THOU still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady ? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit ? ? What struggle to escape ? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?