Rudiments of Public Speaking and Debate: Or, Hints on the Application of LogicMcElrath and Barker, 1853 - 129 oldal |
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... the newspaper and the platform , and the rhetoric of daily conversation - that the reader may acquire a public as well as a scholastic spirit : the aim being to elicit origi- nality , to realise a distinct individual , who shall 6 PROEM .
... the newspaper and the platform , and the rhetoric of daily conversation - that the reader may acquire a public as well as a scholastic spirit : the aim being to elicit origi- nality , to realise a distinct individual , who shall 6 PROEM .
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... distinct individual , who shall go forth into the arena of the world with determinate and disciplined powers capable of usefully influencing its affairs . In the division of the Parts and the succession of the Chapters there is no ...
... distinct individual , who shall go forth into the arena of the world with determinate and disciplined powers capable of usefully influencing its affairs . In the division of the Parts and the succession of the Chapters there is no ...
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... distinct merit . Why , therefore , should not the author of a book , even if made up of other men's materials , be credited also with distinct merit , if his work has an idea which subordinates the materials he employs and shapes them ...
... distinct merit . Why , therefore , should not the author of a book , even if made up of other men's materials , be credited also with distinct merit , if his work has an idea which subordinates the materials he employs and shapes them ...
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... distinct and forcible pronunciation is the basis of delivery . Between deliberate , full - toned , and energetic speaking , and feeble , indistinct , and spiritless utter- ance , there is the difference of live and dead oratory . The ...
... distinct and forcible pronunciation is the basis of delivery . Between deliberate , full - toned , and energetic speaking , and feeble , indistinct , and spiritless utter- ance , there is the difference of live and dead oratory . The ...
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... distinct- ness of mental vision , when men are fully accustomed to it , they obtain a habit of foreseeing at the beginning of every sentence how it is to end , and how all its parts may be brought out in the best and most orderly ...
... distinct- ness of mental vision , when men are fully accustomed to it , they obtain a habit of foreseeing at the beginning of every sentence how it is to end , and how all its parts may be brought out in the best and most orderly ...
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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.