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 SpeakingW.F. Draper, 1869 - 413 Seiten |
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... hearers and carrying them with him . Such exertion will often demand all the spirit and enthusiasm of heroic enterprise . - The student of elocution , then , must bring to his practice a stirring ambition that shall not suffer him to ...
... hearers and carrying them with him . Such exertion will often demand all the spirit and enthusiasm of heroic enterprise . - The student of elocution , then , must bring to his practice a stirring ambition that shall not suffer him to ...
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... hearers . An affected delivery is often a delivery of mere words , often words conveying a thought never intended by the speaker . If , then , the preaching of the gospel be the appropriate enunciation of divine truth , we see why it ...
... hearers . An affected delivery is often a delivery of mere words , often words conveying a thought never intended by the speaker . If , then , the preaching of the gospel be the appropriate enunciation of divine truth , we see why it ...
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... hearers . But for men who are morally and intellectually qualified to preach the gos- pel , the importance of manner can scarcely be overrated . And to overlook it is a proof neither of piety , dignity , nor wisdom . If there were some ...
... hearers . But for men who are morally and intellectually qualified to preach the gos- pel , the importance of manner can scarcely be overrated . And to overlook it is a proof neither of piety , dignity , nor wisdom . If there were some ...
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... hearers , forever . In every view of the case , then , the best mode of occupying the pulpit , and of exer- cising his functions in it , cannot be unimportant . If there be a way of diminishing the weariness of the speaker ; if there be ...
... hearers , forever . In every view of the case , then , the best mode of occupying the pulpit , and of exer- cising his functions in it , cannot be unimportant . If there be a way of diminishing the weariness of the speaker ; if there be ...
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... hearers . When Cowper expresses his abhorrence of the " start theatric practiced at the glass , " all the world approves the censure , because all the world understands him to mean the affected and contemptible exhibition of one's self ...
... hearers . When Cowper expresses his abhorrence of the " start theatric practiced at the glass , " all the world approves the censure , because all the world understands him to mean the affected and contemptible exhibition of one's self ...
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action Andover Theological Seminary appropriate audience beauty become breath character Circumflex cultivation culture deep Demosthenes dignity discipline discourse earnest earth effect elocutionist eloquence emotion Empassioned emphasis eternal exemplified exercise expression Falling Inflection false fault feeling force genuine gesture give glory glottis grace habit hallowed ground hand hath hearers heart heaven human human voice hymn impart impressive influence inspiring Isaiah language living Lord manner mannerist ment mind Minor Third mode of voice moderate mould Movement natural ness o'er orator Orotund Quality Pathos Pauses Pitch poetry praise preacher prevalent Psalm public speaking pulpit Pure Tone reading render sacred Scripture Semitone sentiment serpent seed solemn soul sound speaker speech spirit student style subdued Sublimity Subtonics sympathy taste thee thine things thou thought tion tone trait true truth unto utterance vivid vocal whole words