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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... hear the preaching of a certain Methodist minister . There is something in the voice of an orator , that answers to a demand of the soul . By the flashes of his eye , the heart of an audience is inflamed ; and men are sometimes spell ...
... hear the preaching of a certain Methodist minister . There is something in the voice of an orator , that answers to a demand of the soul . By the flashes of his eye , the heart of an audience is inflamed ; and men are sometimes spell ...
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... hear the preacher who speaks like one anointed to publish glad tidings . Let it not be said , that this mode of speaking is the result of divine grace . The gifts of the Spirit never supersede the necessity of assiduous culture . Nor ...
... hear the preacher who speaks like one anointed to publish glad tidings . Let it not be said , that this mode of speaking is the result of divine grace . The gifts of the Spirit never supersede the necessity of assiduous culture . Nor ...
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... hear a mes- sage from God . There certainly is neither piety nor power in clownishness . And it cannot be denied that if some speakers had practised their attitudes and starts before a glass , they would never have inflicted them on ...
... hear a mes- sage from God . There certainly is neither piety nor power in clownishness . And it cannot be denied that if some speakers had practised their attitudes and starts before a glass , they would never have inflicted them on ...
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... hears frequently offered to the systematic study of elocution , as either unnecessary or injurious . A teacher in the department of elocution , has to com- municate with minds under every variety of impression on the subject of culture ...
... hears frequently offered to the systematic study of elocution , as either unnecessary or injurious . A teacher in the department of elocution , has to com- municate with minds under every variety of impression on the subject of culture ...
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... hear the tones of the human voice assimilated to the twanging of a poor performer on the violin , is capable of exciting no emotions but those of the risible order : or he is emitting his voice with the gutteral tones which , sometimes ...
... hear the tones of the human voice assimilated to the twanging of a poor performer on the violin , is capable of exciting no emotions but those of the risible order : or he is emitting his voice with the gutteral tones which , sometimes ...
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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
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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.