Public Speaking, Principles and PracticeSewell Publishing Company, 1915 - 476 páginas |
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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 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 possible 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
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Página 157 - I COME from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges.
Página 269 - The question with me is not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Página 236 - Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on. "I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least — at least I mean what I say — that's the same thing, you know.
Página 154 - I go to prove my soul ! I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive ! what time, what circuit first, I ask not : but unless God send his hail Or blinding fireballs, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive : He guides me and the bird. In his good time ! Mich.
Página 362 - But you will not abide the election of a Republican President! In that supposed event, you say, you will destroy the Union; and then, you say, the great crime of having destroyed it will be upon us! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, "Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!
Página 197 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Página 212 - Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Página 387 - I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews: Especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews : wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.
Página 153 - It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding: Sweet lovers love the spring.
Página 293 - The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, At the presence of the LORD of the whole earth.