Great Speeches and how to Make ThemFunk & Wagnalls Company, 1911 - 391 pages |
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... never be superfluous . If it is not a natural emanation from the heart , the speaker will do well to keep to simple colloquy . When the orator becomes an actor , intelligent people refuse longer to follow his leadership . Without ...
... never be superfluous . If it is not a natural emanation from the heart , the speaker will do well to keep to simple colloquy . When the orator becomes an actor , intelligent people refuse longer to follow his leadership . Without ...
Page 34
... never give the impression of finishing his speech , and then just as every one thinks he has ended , start off again upon some new phase of his subject . Prolixity is a too common fault of speakers , and no- where is this so apparent as ...
... never give the impression of finishing his speech , and then just as every one thinks he has ended , start off again upon some new phase of his subject . Prolixity is a too common fault of speakers , and no- where is this so apparent as ...
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... never be used to deface a serious speech . The student of public speaking can not too early realize that his habitual attitude of mind toward the subjects he is studying should be essentially serious , and that his ulti- mate purpose is ...
... never be used to deface a serious speech . The student of public speaking can not too early realize that his habitual attitude of mind toward the subjects he is studying should be essentially serious , and that his ulti- mate purpose is ...
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... never yet raised his voice to assert a lie , will not hazard his character with posterity by asserting a falsehood on a subject so important to his country , and on an occasion like this . Yes , my lords , a man who does not wish to ...
... never yet raised his voice to assert a lie , will not hazard his character with posterity by asserting a falsehood on a subject so important to his country , and on an occasion like this . Yes , my lords , a man who does not wish to ...
Page 57
... never seen the smoke of an enemy's camp . Let the iron belt of martial music , which now encompasses the earth , be exchanged for the golden cestus of peace , clothing all with celestial beauty . History dwells with fondness on the ...
... never seen the smoke of an enemy's camp . Let the iron belt of martial music , which now encompasses the earth , be exchanged for the golden cestus of peace , clothing all with celestial beauty . History dwells with fondness on the ...
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Page 321 - Union to be dissolved; 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 the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 50 - I appeal to the wisdom and the law of this learned bench to defend and support the justice of their country. I call upon the bishops...
Page 131 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Page 326 - ... in such a case, we find it impossible not to believe that Stephen and Franklin, and Roger and James all understood one another from the beginning, and all worked upon a common plan or draft drawn up before the first blow was struck.
Page 136 - True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion.
Page 65 - Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will...
Page 122 - Every year of its duration has teemed with fresh proofs of its utility and its blessings ; and although our territory has stretched out wider and wider, and our population spread farther and farther, they have not outrun its protection or its benefits. It has been to us all a copious fountain of national, social, and personal happiness.
Page 351 - Far better it is to dare mighty 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 not victory nor defeat.
Page 321 - I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, 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 7 - It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up. There were some schools, so called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond "readin', writin', and cipherin'