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 Practice |
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... action . The author has endeavoured to lead the mind , by cautious gradation , from the habits of definition , to the investigation of com- plex proposition . In every stage the principle is put into practice upon such subjects as form ...
... action . The author has endeavoured to lead the mind , by cautious gradation , from the habits of definition , to the investigation of com- plex proposition . In every stage the principle is put into practice upon such subjects as form ...
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... action it is almost indispensable : and a momentary recollection of those who have obtained the largest share of reverence , will suggest how great a value has always been placed on true oratory . The situations in this free country in ...
... action it is almost indispensable : and a momentary recollection of those who have obtained the largest share of reverence , will suggest how great a value has always been placed on true oratory . The situations in this free country in ...
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... actions included in a fable as easily as he can point out nouns and verbs . A little more experience will suggest to him the purpose , or , as it is commonly called , the moral of a fable and thus he will soon readily deter- mine the ...
... actions included in a fable as easily as he can point out nouns and verbs . A little more experience will suggest to him the purpose , or , as it is commonly called , the moral of a fable and thus he will soon readily deter- mine the ...
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... actions that produce them , fix themselves best in the memory , and remain clearest and long- est there . " * If a person go to a shop where two or three thousand different articles are sold ( as is frequently the case ) , it is seldom ...
... actions that produce them , fix themselves best in the memory , and remain clearest and long- est there . " * If a person go to a shop where two or three thousand different articles are sold ( as is frequently the case ) , it is seldom ...
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... action , are among the plainest and most useful precepts for the gesture of an orator . But to observe the deportment of those public speakers who possess elegance of manner , is to obtain the most efficacious lesson . It should be ...
... action , are among the plainest and most useful precepts for the gesture of an orator . But to observe the deportment of those public speakers who possess elegance of manner , is to obtain the most efficacious lesson . It should be ...
Common terms and phrases
accent acquired action African slave trade appear arguments arms attain black crows blood Bolus breath Cęsar cęsura 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 Cęsar 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
Popular passages
Page 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.
Page 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!
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.