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 ...W.F. Draper & brother, 1853 - 413 Seiten |
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... hand , the foot , the attitude of the . limbs and chest and head , may all show forth a sentiment of the soul . It is a singular fact , that the choicest selec- tion of words will sometimes fail to exhibit a certain cast of thought ...
... hand , the foot , the attitude of the . limbs and chest and head , may all show forth a sentiment of the soul . It is a singular fact , that the choicest selec- tion of words will sometimes fail to exhibit a certain cast of thought ...
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... hand . Wheth- er they love or hate the truth which is addressed to them , they are enamored of the form in which it appears . Many an obnoxious doctrine of the Bible lies imbedded in a sweet historical narrative , which allures even ...
... hand . Wheth- er they love or hate the truth which is addressed to them , they are enamored of the form in which it appears . Many an obnoxious doctrine of the Bible lies imbedded in a sweet historical narrative , which allures even ...
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... hand , those whose self - esteem induces a perfect satisfaction with their habitual manner , be it what it may , and who are confident that they need little aid from from any source but what is within themselves . He sees , perhaps ...
... hand , those whose self - esteem induces a perfect satisfaction with their habitual manner , be it what it may , and who are confident that they need little aid from from any source but what is within themselves . He sees , perhaps ...
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... hand , a faint and feeble utterance , which does not allow him to be heard . He may have a uniform bawling or calling force , which indicates no variation of feeling , no softening touch of subdued emotion ; or he may have nothing of ...
... hand , a faint and feeble utterance , which does not allow him to be heard . He may have a uniform bawling or calling force , which indicates no variation of feeling , no softening touch of subdued emotion ; or he may have nothing of ...
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... hand , he twitches and jerks his words with perpetual double slides and circumflexes , † so that his language seems to become a succession of verbal distinctions , quirks , or quibbles , * The intellectual and argumentative tendencies ...
... hand , he twitches and jerks his words with perpetual double slides and circumflexes , † so that his language seems to become a succession of verbal distinctions , quirks , or quibbles , * The intellectual and argumentative tendencies ...
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action appropriate art thou audience beauty become Behold body breath character Cicero Circumflex cultivation culture darkness death deep Demosthenes discourse divine earnest earth effect elocution elocutionist eloquence emotion Empassioned emphasis eternal exercise expression false father fault feeling force genuine gesture give glory glottis grace habit hand hath hearers heart heaven human human voice hymn impart impressive influence inspiring Isaiah language light living Lord manner mannerist ment mind Minor Third moderate modes mould Movement natural ness o'er orator Orotund Quality Pathos Pitch poetry practice praise preacher public speaking pulpit Pure Tone Radical Stress reading render sacred Scripture Semitone sentiment sing solemn soul sound speaker speaking speech spirit student style Subdued sublime Subtonics taste thee thine things thou thought tion tone trait true truth unto utterance vivid vocal vocal ligaments voice whole word
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 249 - Rising or falling still advance his praise. His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
Seite 207 - Having, then gifts, differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith ; or ministry, let us wait on our ministering; or he that teacheth, on teaching; or he that exhorteth, on exhortation : he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.
Seite 170 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Seite 214 - Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom...
Seite 248 - Thus wondrous fair: thyself how wondrous then! Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine. Speak, ye who best can tell, ye Sons of Light, Angels...
Seite 328 - SWEET is the work, my God, my King, To praise thy name, give thanks and sing ; To show thy love by morning light, And talk of all thy truth at night.
Seite 297 - And they came to the place which God had told him of ; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
Seite 307 - They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Seite 276 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song...
Seite 197 - There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, And fire out of his mouth devoured; Coals were kindled by it.