Rudiments of Public Speaking and Debate: Or, Hints on the Application of LogicMcElrath and Barker, 1853 - 129 oldal |
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34. oldal
... qualities of his speeches . " He strips a subject of all extraneous and unnecessary adjuncts , and exposes it in its natural proportions . He scents a fallacy afar off , and hunts it down at once without mercy . He has certain ...
... qualities of his speeches . " He strips a subject of all extraneous and unnecessary adjuncts , and exposes it in its natural proportions . He scents a fallacy afar off , and hunts it down at once without mercy . He has certain ...
61. oldal
... qualities will give life to a book without sense . They are but the auxiliaries of meaning , not the substitutes for it . Gilfillan has happily said , that " the secret of perfect composition is manly wisdom , uttered in youthful ...
... qualities will give life to a book without sense . They are but the auxiliaries of meaning , not the substitutes for it . Gilfillan has happily said , that " the secret of perfect composition is manly wisdom , uttered in youthful ...
63. oldal
... qualities to master ! As ' tis a greater mystery in the art Of painting to foreshorten any part , Than draw it out ; so ' tis in books the chief Of all perfections to be plain and brief . Juniper Hedgehog wrote of the Bishop of Exeter ...
... qualities to master ! As ' tis a greater mystery in the art Of painting to foreshorten any part , Than draw it out ; so ' tis in books the chief Of all perfections to be plain and brief . Juniper Hedgehog wrote of the Bishop of Exeter ...
118. oldal
... qualities . A gentleman makes no noise : a lady is serene . * * Let us leave hurry to slaves . The compliments and ceremonies of our breeding should signify , however remotely , the grandeur of our destiny . " CHAPTER XXII . QUESTIONING ...
... qualities . A gentleman makes no noise : a lady is serene . * * Let us leave hurry to slaves . The compliments and ceremonies of our breeding should signify , however remotely , the grandeur of our destiny . " CHAPTER XXII . QUESTIONING ...
122. oldal
... qualities not found in prose . What Poetry is it is not easy to define satis- factorily . But this is agreed upon , that whatever is called Poetry ought to contain an idea or ideas above the level of Prose , and such as cannot be so ...
... qualities not found in prose . What Poetry is it is not easy to define satis- factorily . But this is agreed upon , that whatever is called Poetry ought to contain an idea or ideas above the level of Prose , and such as cannot be so ...
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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.