Rhetoric of the People: Is There Any Better Or Equal Hope in the World?Harold Barrett |
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... question , I must make certain basic assumptions that might as well be set forth at the outset . I assume that in our teaching of public speaking , especially as it relates to politics and statecraft , we are largely if not indeed ...
... question , I must make certain basic assumptions that might as well be set forth at the outset . I assume that in our teaching of public speaking , especially as it relates to politics and statecraft , we are largely if not indeed ...
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... question . Nor do I want here to go into the justice of the popular verdict concerning the person chosen for example . For our purposes we need only choose a man who has been considered a charlatan both by the people of his own time and ...
... question . Nor do I want here to go into the justice of the popular verdict concerning the person chosen for example . For our purposes we need only choose a man who has been considered a charlatan both by the people of his own time and ...
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... questions . An inspection of the titles of papers read at speech conventions would not substantially alter the conclusion ; and , unhappily , the textbooks in history actually seem to further it . We assume too readily 21.
... questions . An inspection of the titles of papers read at speech conventions would not substantially alter the conclusion ; and , unhappily , the textbooks in history actually seem to further it . We assume too readily 21.
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... question a friendly witness who has agreed to commit perjury . Quintilian's discussion of court methods sug- gests that for a Roman pleader to have failed to instruct witnesses to counter perjury with perjury might have ensured that ...
... question a friendly witness who has agreed to commit perjury . Quintilian's discussion of court methods sug- gests that for a Roman pleader to have failed to instruct witnesses to counter perjury with perjury might have ensured that ...
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... questions about methods used even in behalf of the nation during times of great danger , much of the misrepresentation , concealment , and irrational argu- ment that characterized the propaganda inciting the nation to Herculean efforts ...
... questions about methods used even in behalf of the nation during times of great danger , much of the misrepresentation , concealment , and irrational argu- ment that characterized the propaganda inciting the nation to Herculean efforts ...
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Page 59 - And whether these forms be in all cases the most rational or not, is really not of so great importance. It is much more material that there should be a rule to go by, than what that rule is...
Page 79 - Every member of any labor organization shall have the right to meet and assemble freely with other members; and to express any views, arguments or opinions; and to express at meetings of the labor organization his views upon candidates in an election of the labor organization or upon any business properly before the meeting, subject to the organization's established and reasonable rules pertaining to the conduct of meetings...
Page 257 - But if the laws of the State are manifestly at variance with the divine law, containing enactments hurtful to the Church, or conveying injunctions adverse to the duties imposed by religion, or if they violate in the person of the supreme Pontiff the authority of Jesus Christ, then truly, to resist becomes a positive duty, to obey, a crime...
Page 205 - Hence he should at all times be accurate, should exercise appropriate restraint, should show respect for the opinions of others and should make every effort to indicate that he is not an institutional spokesman.
Page 46 - Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.
Page 297 - The whole story of the South may be summed up in a sentence: She was rich, and she lost her riches; she was poor and in bondage; she was set free, and she had to go to work; she went to work, and she is richer than ever before.
Page 297 - There was a South of slavery and secession — that South is dead. There is a South of union and freedom — that South, thank God, is living, breathing, growing every hour.