How to Master the Spoken Word: Designed as a Self-instructor for All who Would Excel in the Art of Public SpeakingA. C. McClurg, 1913 - 420 pages |
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... things are dis- graces . 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 dis- graces . 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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... thing - agriculture , commerce , art , science , and every depart- ment of education , physical and mental , as well as moral advancement , and our colleges — I think , in the face of such an exhibition , if we can , without the loss of ...
... thing - agriculture , commerce , art , science , and every depart- ment of education , physical and mental , as well as moral advancement , and our colleges — I think , in the face of such an exhibition , if we can , without the loss of ...
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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 ...
... 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 ...
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... things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables : and without a parable spoke he not unto them . Henry Ward Beecher , in his sermon , " Poverty and the Gospel , " used this figure of speech : On the Niagara River logs come floating ...
... things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables : and without a parable spoke he not unto them . Henry Ward Beecher , in his sermon , " Poverty and the Gospel , " used this figure of speech : On the Niagara River logs come floating ...
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Page 19 - Look here, upon this picture, and on this, The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. See what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command...
Page 31 - I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
Page 322 - I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery, will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in...
Page 386 - But where to find that happiest spot below, Who can direct, when all pretend to know? The shudd'ring tenant of the frigid zone Boldly proclaims that happiest spot his own...
Page 308 - What terms shall we find, which have not already been exhausted ? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves longer. Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the Ministry and Parliament. Our petitions...
Page 396 - In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me : As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Page 40 - THIS uncounted multitude before me, and around me, proves the feeling which the occasion has excited. These thousands of human faces, glowing with sympathy and joy, and, from the impulses of a common gratitude, turned reverently to heaven, in this spacious temple of the firmament, proclaim that the day, the place, and the purpose of our assembling have made a deep impression on our hearts.
Page 307 - This is no time for ceremony. The question before the house is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate.
Page 15 - But when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must, — when the soul seeth not, when the sun is hid, and the stars withdraw their shining, — we repair to the lamps which were kindled by their ray to guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn is. We hear that we may speak. The Arabian proverb says, "A fig tree looking on a fig tree, becometh fruitful.
Page 322 - If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it.