Pulpit Elocution: Comprising Remarks on the Effect of Manner in Public Discourse; the Elements of Elocution, Applied to the Reading of the Scriptures, Hymns, and Sermons; with Observations on the Principles of Gesture; and a Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking |
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THE Author of our being has made the various organs of the body expressive of
thought and emotion . The eye , the cheek , the lip , the hand , the foot , the
attitude of the limbs and chest and head , may all show forth a sentiment of the
soul .
THE Author of our being has made the various organs of the body expressive of
thought and emotion . The eye , the cheek , the lip , the hand , the foot , the
attitude of the limbs and chest and head , may all show forth a sentiment of the
soul .
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... which the human heart had acquired a comfortable indifference . The
uncultivated reader in the pulpit , thus nullifies , to the ear , whatever may be in
his heart ; and what was meant to pierce the inmost soul , “ plays harmless round
the head .
... which the human heart had acquired a comfortable indifference . The
uncultivated reader in the pulpit , thus nullifies , to the ear , whatever may be in
his heart ; and what was meant to pierce the inmost soul , “ plays harmless round
the head .
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A single glance at the mirror in his room , while the speaker was at practice ,
would be the most effectual admonition to guard against those writhings of the
body , noddings of the head , and jerkings of the arm , which degrade the
preacher into ...
A single glance at the mirror in his room , while the speaker was at practice ,
would be the most effectual admonition to guard against those writhings of the
body , noddings of the head , and jerkings of the arm , which degrade the
preacher into ...
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The result of such a manner is to anatomize and kill feeling , — not to inspire it :
the head is , in this way , allowed to take the place of the heart . Exact
discrimination and subtle nicety of intellect , preponderate , usually , in the effect
of such ...
The result of such a manner is to anatomize and kill feeling , — not to inspire it :
the head is , in this way , allowed to take the place of the heart . Exact
discrimination and subtle nicety of intellect , preponderate , usually , in the effect
of such ...
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His body seems pailed to the floor , his members galvanized into metallic
stiffness , his head glued to his neck , his eye motionless in its socket , his arm
pinioned to his side . His whole visible mien and movement are those of an ill -
adjusted ...
His body seems pailed to the floor , his members galvanized into metallic
stiffness , his head glued to his neck , his eye motionless in its socket , his arm
pinioned to his side . His whole visible mien and movement are those of an ill -
adjusted ...
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| Titel | Pulpit Elocution: Comprising Remarks on the Effect of Manner in Public Discourse; the Elements of Elocution, Applied to the Reading of the Scriptures, Hymns, and Sermons; with Observations on the Principles of Gesture; and a Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking |
| Autor/in | William Russell |
| Ausgabe | 2 |
| Verlag | W.F. Draper, 1869 |
| Original von | Harvard University |
| Digitalisiert | 11. Dez. 2007 |
| Länge | 413 Seiten |
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