Rudiments of Public Speaking and Debate: Or, Hints on the Application of LogicMcElrath and Barker, 1853 - 129 oldal |
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... original . We are all of us in- debted to those who have thought before us , and we have to say with Montaigne- " I have gathered a nosegay of flowers in which there is nothing of my own but the string which ties them . " But in this ...
... original . We are all of us in- debted to those who have thought before us , and we have to say with Montaigne- " I have gathered a nosegay of flowers in which there is nothing of my own but the string which ties them . " But in this ...
11. oldal
... original . " * He who gives directions for the attainment of oratory is supposed , if a public speaker , to be capable of illustrating his own precepts . " He may be thought to challenge criticism ; and his own performances may be ...
... original . " * He who gives directions for the attainment of oratory is supposed , if a public speaker , to be capable of illustrating his own precepts . " He may be thought to challenge criticism ; and his own performances may be ...
16. oldal
... original conception can alone produce personality of enunciation , which is the chief charm of oratory . Conception is the sole governor of intonation . Of the delicious magic of inflection Eben Jones has given us a poet's idea in his ...
... original conception can alone produce personality of enunciation , which is the chief charm of oratory . Conception is the sole governor of intonation . Of the delicious magic of inflection Eben Jones has given us a poet's idea in his ...
28. oldal
... original accepta- tion , laying down the rule - the other is called the relation of theory . * This is the method of science - it applies to the order pur- sued in the arrangement of encyclopædias . The method of art , if not so rigid ...
... original accepta- tion , laying down the rule - the other is called the relation of theory . * This is the method of science - it applies to the order pur- sued in the arrangement of encyclopædias . The method of art , if not so rigid ...
35. oldal
... original subject . After this manner : - " Speaking of tails - we always like those that end well - Hogg's , for instance - speaking of hogs - we saw one of these animals the other day lying in the gutter , and in the opposite one a ...
... original subject . After this manner : - " Speaking of tails - we always like those that end well - Hogg's , for instance - speaking of hogs - we saw one of these animals the other day lying in the gutter , and in the opposite one a ...
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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.