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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... truth . " Now read the entire paragraph : A city is adorned by good citizenship , the body by beauty , the soul by wisdom , acts by virtue , and speech by truth- fulness . But the opposites of these virtues are a disgrace . Man and ...
... truth . " Now read the entire paragraph : A city is adorned by good citizenship , the body by beauty , the soul by wisdom , acts by virtue , and speech by truth- fulness . But the opposites of these virtues are a disgrace . Man and ...
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... truth . It came to him , short - lived actions ; it went out from him , immortal thoughts . It came to him , business ; it went from him , poetry . It was dead fact ; now , it is quick thought . It can stand and it can go . It now ...
... truth . It came to him , short - lived actions ; it went out from him , immortal thoughts . It came to him , business ; it went from him , poetry . It was dead fact ; now , it is quick thought . It can stand and it can go . It now ...
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... truth . " This is followed by a triple contrast , “ It came to him , short - lived actions ; it went out from him , immortal thoughts . " Then comes another double con- trast , " It came to him , business ; it went from him , poetry ...
... truth . " This is followed by a triple contrast , “ It came to him , short - lived actions ; it went out from him , immortal thoughts . " Then comes another double con- trast , " It came to him , business ; it went from him , poetry ...
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... 1911 , summed up the character of Abraham Lincoln in these well - chosen words : With his love of truth , the supreme trait of his intellect , accompanied by a conscience that insisted on the right as The Making of Oratory 13.
... 1911 , summed up the character of Abraham Lincoln in these well - chosen words : With his love of truth , the supreme trait of his intellect , accompanied by a conscience that insisted on the right as The Making of Oratory 13.
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... truth , " accompanied by a conscience that insisted on the right as he knew it , " and " with a great heart full of tender- . ness , " the sense being completed by " we have the com- bination that made Lincoln one of the two greatest ...
... truth , " accompanied by a conscience that insisted on the right as he knew it , " and " with a great heart full of tender- . ness , " the sense being completed by " we have the com- bination that made Lincoln one of the two greatest ...
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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.