The American Orator's Own Book: Or, The Art of Extemporaneous Public Speaking, Including a Course of Discipline for Obtaining the Faculties of Discrimination, Arrangement and Oral Discussion; with a Debate, as an Exercise in Argumentative Declamation; and Numerous Selections for PracticeJ. Kay, 1836 - 328 Seiten |
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... attain- ments may have an appearance of puerility ; but the evident deficiency in the most humble of these acquirements , which is frequently be- trayed by those who read and speak in public , will afford excuse for giving some ...
... attain- ments may have an appearance of puerility ; but the evident deficiency in the most humble of these acquirements , which is frequently be- trayed by those who read and speak in public , will afford excuse for giving some ...
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... attaining a clear articula- tion . The contrast of words having v and w for their respective initials , and of those with an aspirate , against words having no aspirate , but otherwise similar , has a manifest utility . The short ...
... attaining a clear articula- tion . The contrast of words having v and w for their respective initials , and of those with an aspirate , against words having no aspirate , but otherwise similar , has a manifest utility . The short ...
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... attain the powers necessary for standing up before a numerous audience , and deliver- ing without hesitation or embarrassment , a long series of well - adjusted sentiments , appears so difficult , that many are deterred even from an ...
... attain the powers necessary for standing up before a numerous audience , and deliver- ing without hesitation or embarrassment , a long series of well - adjusted sentiments , appears so difficult , that many are deterred even from an ...
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... attain or to shun an epigrammatic point , or an alliteration , or a discord ; and all this with so much assured reliance on his own powers , and with such perfect ease to himself , that he shall even plan the next sentence while he is ...
... attain or to shun an epigrammatic point , or an alliteration , or a discord ; and all this with so much assured reliance on his own powers , and with such perfect ease to himself , that he shall even plan the next sentence while he is ...
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... attain the art of speaking extempore . Want of No endowment with which man is blessed is more abused than that of memory . recollection is one of the first excuses which ig- norance and indolence plead for their deficien- cies . But it ...
... attain the art of speaking extempore . Want of No endowment with which man is blessed is more abused than that of memory . recollection is one of the first excuses which ig- norance and indolence plead for their deficien- cies . But it ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
accent acquired action African slave trade appear arguments arms attain black crows blood Bolus breath Cæsar cæsura called Canary Islands cause Chairman character Cicero Circumflex consists Damocles Demosthenes diphthong discourse discrimination Dissyllable distinguished by italics Dr Johnson earth effect emphasis exercise expressed eyes fame feel following are examples following examples genius gentleman gesture give glory habit hand happiness hear hearer heart heaven Herculaneum honour human idea Inflection ject John Sheridan judgment Julius Cæsar justice king liberty living lord manner ment mind nation nature Nervii never noble nouns object observe orator passion pause perceive persons Pompey practice preserve principle Prop proper proposition public speaking punishment quired reason Roman Rome Rule sentence speaker speech spirit student syllable talents Teneriffe thing thou thought tion tone Trisyllables truth utterance verbs virtue voice whole words Zounds
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 205 - If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston ! The war is inevitable — and let it come ! I repeat it, sir, let it come ! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, — but there is no peace.
Seite 213 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark! - that heavy sound breaks in once more, As if the clouds its echo would repeat; And nearer, clearer, deadlier than before! Arm! Arm! it is - it is - the cannon's opening roar!
Seite 325 - When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony and shroud and pall And breathless darkness and the narrow house...
Seite 183 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Seite 214 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms, — the day Battle's...
Seite 218 - They fought like brave men, long and well; They piled that ground with Moslem slain; They conquered; but Bozzaris fell, Bleeding at every vein. His few surviving comrades saw His smile when rang their proud hurrah, And the red field was won, Then saw in death his eyelids close, Calmly as to a night's repose— Like flowers at set of sun.
Seite 217 - At midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour "When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, Should tremble at his power ; In dreams, through camp and court, he bore The trophies of a conqueror...
Seite 326 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.
Seite 218 - But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be.
Seite 221 - I call upon the honour of your lordships to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national character. I invoke the genius of the constitution. From the tapestry that adorns these walls, the immortal ancestor of this noble lord frowns with indignation at the disgrace of his country.