Rudiments of Public Speaking and Debate: Or, Hints on the Application of LogicMcElrath and Barker, 1853 - 129 oldal |
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26. oldal
... lectures of these days . An audience is an adult school . It has , in the short space of an hour , to be educated in a new purpose . The undertaking is presumptuous , and is only to be accomplished by the union of rare judgment ...
... lectures of these days . An audience is an adult school . It has , in the short space of an hour , to be educated in a new purpose . The undertaking is presumptuous , and is only to be accomplished by the union of rare judgment ...
73. oldal
... lectures , I used to walk to the place of their delivery . On my walk from Birmingham to Worcester , a distance of 26 miles , it was my custom to recite on the way portions of my intended address . In the early part of my walk my voice ...
... lectures , I used to walk to the place of their delivery . On my walk from Birmingham to Worcester , a distance of 26 miles , it was my custom to recite on the way portions of my intended address . In the early part of my walk my voice ...
74. oldal
... lectures . It was my first appearance there , and I was ambitious to acquit myself well . But in the morning I was utterly unable to do more than talk half inaudibly and quite incoherently . In the evening I was tolerable , but my voice ...
... lectures . It was my first appearance there , and I was ambitious to acquit myself well . But in the morning I was utterly unable to do more than talk half inaudibly and quite incoherently . In the evening I was tolerable , but my voice ...
89. oldal
... lecture ? Take care that you do not render yourself amenable to the sarcasm of Swift , who when Burnet said , speaking of the Scotch preachers in the time of the civil war , ' The crowds were far beyond the capacity of their churches ...
... lecture ? Take care that you do not render yourself amenable to the sarcasm of Swift , who when Burnet said , speaking of the Scotch preachers in the time of the civil war , ' The crowds were far beyond the capacity of their churches ...
90. oldal
... lecturer is too little impressed with the wide application of the philosophy of controversy . The discipline of debate should enter into every oration . It is for this reason that speaking requires to be in some degree verbose . In ...
... lecturer is too little impressed with the wide application of the philosophy of controversy . The discipline of debate should enter into every oration . It is for this reason that speaking requires to be in some degree verbose . In ...
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72. oldal - For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language, no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed.
72. oldal - The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of mo're than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say.
89. oldal - Pulpit discourses have insensibly dwindled from speaking to reading ; a practice, of itself, sufficient to stifle every germ of eloquence. It is only by the fresh feelings of the heart, that mankind can be very powerfully affected.
124. oldal - An admonition to the people of England; Wherein are answered, not onely the slaunderous vntruethes, reprochfully vttered by MARTIN the Libeller, but also many other Crimes by some of his broode, objected generally against all Bishops, and the chiefe of the Cleargie, purposely to deface and discredite the present state of the Church.
62. oldal - Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.