Rudiments of Public Speaking and Debate: Or, Hints on the Application of LogicMcElrath and Barker, 1853 - 129 oldal |
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... present to the scholar , and see how multiplied are his means of knowing the truth upon all sub- jects , I cannot conceive that he can be struggling like the untaught thinker be- tween right and wrong . To the scholar , truth and ...
... present to the scholar , and see how multiplied are his means of knowing the truth upon all sub- jects , I cannot conceive that he can be struggling like the untaught thinker be- tween right and wrong . To the scholar , truth and ...
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... present instance , I have only to urge , with Horace in his Art of Poetry , that a whetstone , though itself incapable of cutting , is yet useful in sharpening steel . No system of instruction will completely equalise natural powers and ...
... present instance , I have only to urge , with Horace in his Art of Poetry , that a whetstone , though itself incapable of cutting , is yet useful in sharpening steel . No system of instruction will completely equalise natural powers and ...
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... present . It is said of Mr. Macaulay ( I think by Francis in his " Orators of the Age " ) that when an opening is made in a discussion in the House of Commons , he rises , or rather darts up from his seat , and plunges at once into the ...
... present . It is said of Mr. Macaulay ( I think by Francis in his " Orators of the Age " ) that when an opening is made in a discussion in the House of Commons , he rises , or rather darts up from his seat , and plunges at once into the ...
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... be palpable in bodily form , how few figures would present the entire lineaments of * Macaulay , Crit . and Hist . Essays , vol . i . mankind . We should behold an assemblage of mutilated fig- THEORY OF PERSUASION . 19.
... be palpable in bodily form , how few figures would present the entire lineaments of * Macaulay , Crit . and Hist . Essays , vol . i . mankind . We should behold an assemblage of mutilated fig- THEORY OF PERSUASION . 19.
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... and reason , with the mere surface knowledge which life presents to every observer , but no one can master persuasion , as an art , unless he passes in review the origin of ideas and analyses 20 PUBLIC SPEAKING AND DEBATE .
... and reason , with the mere surface knowledge which life presents to every observer , but no one can master persuasion , as an art , unless he passes in review the origin of ideas and analyses 20 PUBLIC SPEAKING AND DEBATE .
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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.