Rudiments of Public Speaking and Debate: Or, Hints on the Application of LogicMcElrath and Barker, 1853 - 129 oldal |
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... FACTS , ETC. " 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 ...
... FACTS , ETC. " 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 ...
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... Facts " I have dealt with the materials of reasoning . This is such " Application " of them as I should make . In this matter I have striven to speak without affecting superiority or infallibility . Writer and reader stand on the same ...
... Facts " I have dealt with the materials of reasoning . This is such " Application " of them as I should make . In this matter I have striven to speak without affecting superiority or infallibility . Writer and reader stand on the same ...
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... fact , you have for a few seconds a voice pitched in alto , monoto- nous , and rather shrill , pouring forth words with inconceivable velocity , ere you have become aware that a new speaker , and one of no common order , has broken in ...
... fact , you have for a few seconds a voice pitched in alto , monoto- nous , and rather shrill , pouring forth words with inconceivable velocity , ere you have become aware that a new speaker , and one of no common order , has broken in ...
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... facts and attributes of human mentality , but the classification of intelligence laid down by some of the more judicious followers of Gall is the most scientific , and , con- sequently , the most intelligible which the student can ...
... facts and attributes of human mentality , but the classification of intelligence laid down by some of the more judicious followers of Gall is the most scientific , and , con- sequently , the most intelligible which the student can ...
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... fact , men are very much the creatures of ideas . Notions govern everything . Impulses are the real destiny - men follow them as surely as the stars or the planets , and it is in this sense that what is to be is . As garment draws the ...
... fact , men are very much the creatures of ideas . Notions govern everything . Impulses are the real destiny - men follow them as surely as the stars or the planets , and it is in this sense that what is to be is . As garment draws the ...
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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.