Rudiments of Public Speaking and Debate: Or, Hints on the Application of LogicMcElrath and Barker, 1853 - 129 oldal |
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... better definition of rhetoric than Dr. Johnson's definition of oratory . " Oratory , " said the Dr. , " is the power of beating down your adversaries ' arguments , and putting better in their places . " Descending more into detail , the ...
... better definition of rhetoric than Dr. Johnson's definition of oratory . " Oratory , " said the Dr. , " is the power of beating down your adversaries ' arguments , and putting better in their places . " Descending more into detail , the ...
10. oldal
... better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself , than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn ; so that , in general , one may observe , that men who fortify and uphold their speeches with ...
... better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself , than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn ; so that , in general , one may observe , that men who fortify and uphold their speeches with ...
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... better be solemn than hasty . Robert Hall , whose talent for extempore speaking was such that , when eleven years of age , he was set up to preach extempore to a select auditory of full - grown men , says of himself , " To me to speak ...
... better be solemn than hasty . Robert Hall , whose talent for extempore speaking was such that , when eleven years of age , he was set up to preach extempore to a select auditory of full - grown men , says of himself , " To me to speak ...
24. oldal
... better understood , at least in theory , than in former periods of our history , and that the public require sincerity on the part of a speaker ; and a life which shall illustrate what the orator seeks to enforce , will add materially ...
... better understood , at least in theory , than in former periods of our history , and that the public require sincerity on the part of a speaker ; and a life which shall illustrate what the orator seeks to enforce , will add materially ...
36. oldal
... better apprehended ; and it is also useful when the chain of argument is long , to give a forecast of the principal bearings and junctures whereby the attention will be more easily secured , and pertinently directed throughout the more ...
... better apprehended ; and it is also useful when the chain of argument is long , to give a forecast of the principal bearings and junctures whereby the attention will be more easily secured , and pertinently directed throughout the more ...
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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.