Rudiments of Public Speaking and Debate: Or, Hints on the Application of LogicMcElrath and Barker, 1853 - 129 oldal |
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... argument . A transition has indeed taken place the time , and means , and ends are changed - but not the relative posi- tion of men . No more do we struggle for the victory of conquest , but we struggle for wages and more intelligence ...
... argument . A transition has indeed taken place the time , and means , and ends are changed - but not the relative posi- tion of men . No more do we struggle for the victory of conquest , but we struggle for wages and more intelligence ...
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... arguments , and putting better in their places . " Descending more into detail , the description given by Lord Herbert of Cherbury is the happiest and healthiest delineation of rhetoric that has fallen under my notice . " It would be ...
... arguments , and putting better in their places . " Descending more into detail , the description given by Lord Herbert of Cherbury is the happiest and healthiest delineation of rhetoric that has fallen under my notice . " It would be ...
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... argument , " says Emerson , " which has not the power to reach my own practice , I may well doubt will fail to reach yours . I have heard an experienced counsellor say , that he never feared the effect upon a jury , of a lawyer who does ...
... argument , " says Emerson , " which has not the power to reach my own practice , I may well doubt will fail to reach yours . I have heard an experienced counsellor say , that he never feared the effect upon a jury , of a lawyer who does ...
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... has always a wider resource . He can draw his arguments from moral and political considerations , founded on utility . These * Carlyle . all men can understand and feel . In those cases 22 PUBLIC SPEAKING AND DEBATE .
... has always a wider resource . He can draw his arguments from moral and political considerations , founded on utility . These * Carlyle . all men can understand and feel . In those cases 22 PUBLIC SPEAKING AND DEBATE .
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... argument . The appeal to reality is the foundation of conviction . The lion was not to be subdued by pictures of Hercules and Theseus - he wanted the fact of his superior strength displayed . It was necessary that Hercules and The- seus ...
... argument . The appeal to reality is the foundation of conviction . The lion was not to be subdued by pictures of Hercules and Theseus - he wanted the fact of his superior strength displayed . It was necessary that Hercules and The- seus ...
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admirable Ancient argument attention audience auditors beautiful Bishop of Exeter Cæsar Catiline CHAPTER character Cicero clear confound conviction debate Demosthenes discipline discourse disputants distinct edition effect eloquence Emerson enforce error escutcheons Ewbank's exordium expression fact feel Fitzroy Kelly genius give Guénon's heard Herodotus History History of Herodotus human idea illustration impression intellectual judgment language learning Lectures Libourne Macaulay mankind manner matter mechanical philosophy method mind Mirabeau moral nature never object observed octavo opinion opponent orator oratory passion Peloponnesian war persons perspicuity philosophy poet poetic poetry practical present Price principles published qualities question reader reason remarks reply rhetoric rule Sam Slick says sense Shakspeare similes simplicity speak speaker speech strength style Tacitus Tact things THOMAS BABBINGTON MACAULAY thought Thucydides tion true truth understanding voice volume whole wisdom wise words writing Xenophon young
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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.