Public Speaking, Principles and Practice

action argument attention audience authority begin believe better chapter clear common concrete consider conversation course crowd debate delivery desire Dick Turpin discussion effect Elihu Root emotion emphasis especially experience expression extemporaneous fact familiar feeling gain George William Curtis gesture Gettysburg Address give Hamilton College hear hearers Henry Ward Beecher ideas illustration imagination important impress inflection interest Jonathan Wild Lincoln logical argument look matter means ment mental method mind natural occasion one's orator outline person persuasion phrase platform political practice preparation present principles Psychology public speaking purpose question reason relations selection sentence sermon speech statement student suggestion talk teacher tell theme things thought thought movement tion tone topic Toussaint L'Ouverture true truth understand usually vivid voice Wendell Phillips wish women's suffrage words young speaker