Rudiments of Public Speaking and Debate: Or, Hints on the Application of LogicMcElrath and Barker, 1853 - 129 oldal |
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... Common sense is the genius of humanity . " — Guizot . FIRST AMERICAN , FROM THE SECOND LONDON EDITION . New York : MCELRATH AND BARKER , No. 17 SPRUCE STREET . 1853 . PRINTED BY BILLIN AND BROTHERS , 20 North William St. RUDIMENTS.
... Common sense is the genius of humanity . " — Guizot . FIRST AMERICAN , FROM THE SECOND LONDON EDITION . New York : MCELRATH AND BARKER , No. 17 SPRUCE STREET . 1853 . PRINTED BY BILLIN AND BROTHERS , 20 North William St. RUDIMENTS.
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... common sense among them is petrified in formulas . We want either a ham- mer or a fire to break the spell or dissolve the ice . Those words of Guizot which I have placed on the title - page , indicate the broad obviousness of precept ...
... common sense among them is petrified in formulas . We want either a ham- mer or a fire to break the spell or dissolve the ice . Those words of Guizot which I have placed on the title - page , indicate the broad obviousness of precept ...
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... common things ingeniously or wittily ; there being no little vigour and force added to words , when they are delivered in a neat and fine way , and somewhat out of the ordinary road , common and dull language relishing more of the clown ...
... common things ingeniously or wittily ; there being no little vigour and force added to words , when they are delivered in a neat and fine way , and somewhat out of the ordinary road , common and dull language relishing more of the clown ...
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... common order , has broken in upon the debate . A few seconds more , and cheers , perhaps from all parts of the house , rouse you completely from your apathy , compelling you to follow that extremely voluble and not very enticing voice ...
... common order , has broken in upon the debate . A few seconds more , and cheers , perhaps from all parts of the house , rouse you completely from your apathy , compelling you to follow that extremely voluble and not very enticing voice ...
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... common to men is to know humanity- to know how they gained is to know how to govern men by speech or pen . Every man , said Pitt , has his price . Whether Pitt had sounded the venality of all patriotism I know not . Of course he had ...
... common to men is to know humanity- to know how they gained is to know how to govern men by speech or pen . Every man , said Pitt , has his price . Whether Pitt had sounded the venality of all patriotism I know not . Of course he had ...
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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.