The Art of Public SpeakingThe best way to become a confident, effective public speaker, according to the authors of this landmark book, is simply to do it. Practice, practice, practice. And while you're at it, assume the positive. Have something to say. Forget the self. Cast out fear. Be absorbed by your subject. And most importantly, expect success. "If you believe you will fail," they write, "there is hope for you. You will." DALE CARNEGIE (1888-1955), a pioneer in public speaking and personality development, gained fame by teaching others how to become successful. His book How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936) has sold more than 10 million copies. He also founded the Dale Carnegie Institute for Effective Speaking and Human Relations, with branches all over the world. JOSEPH BERG ESENWEIN (1867-1946) also wrote The Art of Story-Writing, Writing the Photoplay (with Arthur Leeds), and Children's Stories and How to Tell Them. |
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... nation in such a compact would be an infamy . Note : In the foregoing sentence , experiment as to where the change in pitch would better be made . Once the flowers distilled their fragrance here , but now see the devastations of war ...
... nation in such a compact would be an infamy . Note : In the foregoing sentence , experiment as to where the change in pitch would better be made . Once the flowers distilled their fragrance here , but now see the devastations of war ...
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... nations of the earth must come in God's appointed timel • -HENRY W. GRADY , The Race Problem . I WOULD CALL HIM NAPOLEON , but Napoleon made his way to empire over broken oaths and through a sea of blood . This man never broke his word ...
... nations of the earth must come in God's appointed timel • -HENRY W. GRADY , The Race Problem . I WOULD CALL HIM NAPOLEON , but Napoleon made his way to empire over broken oaths and through a sea of blood . This man never broke his word ...
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... NATIONS into FAM- ILIES . To do the business of these closely knit millions in every modern country GREAT BUSINESS CONCERNS CAME INTO BEING . What we call big business is the CHILD OF THE ECONOMIC PROGRESS OF MANKIND . So warfare to ...
... NATIONS into FAM- ILIES . To do the business of these closely knit millions in every modern country GREAT BUSINESS CONCERNS CAME INTO BEING . What we call big business is the CHILD OF THE ECONOMIC PROGRESS OF MANKIND . So warfare to ...
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... nation , conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal . Now we are engaged in a great civil war , testing whether that nation - or any nation so conceived and so dedicated - can long endure . We ...
... nation , conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal . Now we are engaged in a great civil war , testing whether that nation - or any nation so conceived and so dedicated - can long endure . We ...
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... nation . She has set up more crosses in more lands , beneath more skies , and under them has butchered more people than all the other nations of the earth combined . Europe may tolerate her exis- tence as long as the people of the Old ...
... nation . She has set up more crosses in more lands , beneath more skies , and under them has butchered more people than all the other nations of the earth combined . Europe may tolerate her exis- tence as long as the people of the Old ...
Contents
CHAPTER XIXINFLUENCING BY EXPOSITION | 218 |
CHAPTER XXINFLUENCING BY DESCRIPTION | 231 |
CHAPTER XXIINFLUENCING BY NARRATION | 249 |
CHAPTER XXIIINFLUENCING BY SUGGESTION | 262 |
CHAPTER XXIIIINFLUENCING BY ARGUMENT | 280 |
CHAPTER XXIVINFLUENCING BY PERSUASION | 295 |
CHAPTER XXVINFLUENCING THE CROWD | 308 |
CHAPTER XXVIRIDING THE WINGED HORSE | 321 |
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CHAPTER XFEELING AND ENTHUSIASM | 101 |
CHAPTER XIFLUENCY THROUGH PREPARATION | 115 |
CHAPTER XIITHE VOICE | 124 |
CHAPTER XIIIVOICE CHARM | 134 |
CHAPTER XIVDISTINCTNESS AND PRECISION | 146 |
CHAPTER XVTHE TRUTH ABOUT GESTURE | 156 |
CHAPTER XVIMETHODS OF DELIVERY | 171 |
CHAPTER XVIITHOUGHT AND RESERVE POWER | 184 |
CHAPTER XVIIISUBJECT AND PREPARATION | 199 |
CHAPTER XXVIIGROWING A VOCABULARY | 334 |
CHAPTER XXVIIIMEMORY TRAINING | 343 |
CHAPTER XXIXRIGHT THINKING AND PERSON | 355 |
CHAPTER XXXAFTERDINNER AND OTHER OCCA | 362 |
CHAPTER XXXIMAKING CONVERSATION EFFEC | 372 |
APPENDIX AFIFTY QUESTIONS FOR DEBATE | 379 |
APPENDIX CSUGGESTIVE SUBJECTS FOR SPEECHES | 386 |
APPENDIX DSPEECHES FOR STUDY AND PRACTISE | 394 |
GENERAL INDEX | 506 |
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Page 113 - They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?
Page 112 - What terms shall we find which have not been already exhausted ? Let us not, I beseech you, Sir, deceive ourselves longer. Sir, we have done everything that could be done, to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned — we have remonstrated — we have supplicated — we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition, to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and parliament.
Page 273 - Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate...
Page 142 - I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley.
Page 112 - Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation ? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love ? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir.
Page 113 - Peace, peace! — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the North will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish ? What would they have ? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery ? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me...
Page 51 - It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work they have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us...
Page 111 - Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it.
Page 138 - Haste thee nymph and bring with thee Jest and youthful jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles. Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled care derides. And laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe...
Page 138 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise; Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good-morrow, Through the sweet-brier, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine.
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Democracy as Discussion: Civic Education and the American Forum Movement William M. Keith Limited preview - 2007 |
Democracy as Discussion: Civic Education and the American Forum Movement William M. Keith No preview available - 2007 |