The Arts of Writing, Reading, and Speaking: In Letters to a Law StudentHorace Cox, 1867 - 336 pagina's |
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... tion , to impart to others so much as I may chance to have learned about the art of speaking . But Speaking is only one form in which the mind . expresses its thoughts . There are two other accomplish- ments , so intimately allied with ...
... tion , to impart to others so much as I may chance to have learned about the art of speaking . But Speaking is only one form in which the mind . expresses its thoughts . There are two other accomplish- ments , so intimately allied with ...
Pagina 3
... tion of a sentence . There was no harm in all this , it is true - it was not wholly worthless ; but it did not supply what I required . I wanted to be told what to do , how to do it , and how to learn to do it . After pondering over the ...
... tion of a sentence . There was no harm in all this , it is true - it was not wholly worthless ; but it did not supply what I required . I wanted to be told what to do , how to do it , and how to learn to do it . After pondering over the ...
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... tion , I have obtained some practical knowledge how the art of speaking may be studied and should be practised , which , collected , arranged , and set forth as clearly as I can , may , perhaps , save yourself and others much of the ...
... tion , I have obtained some practical knowledge how the art of speaking may be studied and should be practised , which , collected , arranged , and set forth as clearly as I can , may , perhaps , save yourself and others much of the ...
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... tion of which must be laid by nature , but whose entire superstructure is the work of learning and of labour . We should deem it almost an act of insanity if a man were to make music or painting his profession , without previous study ...
... tion of which must be laid by nature , but whose entire superstructure is the work of learning and of labour . We should deem it almost an act of insanity if a man were to make music or painting his profession , without previous study ...
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... tion . Composition — by which I mean the choice of the fittest words , and the arrangement of them in the most . correct and graceful sentences - can be mastered only by long study and much practice . Every man who aspires to be a ...
... tion . Composition — by which I mean the choice of the fittest words , and the arrangement of them in the most . correct and graceful sentences - can be mastered only by long study and much practice . Every man who aspires to be a ...
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accomplishment acquired action actor appear argument art of reading Art of Speaking Arts of Writing assembly audience avoid Barrister beginning breath Brutus Cæsar composition convey cultivated desire dialogue difficult discourse drop letters effect elocution eloquence emotions emphasis endeavour exercise expression fault feel give habit Hamlet hear hearers hints House of Commons humour ideas inflection intel intelligence Julius Cæsar jury language lesson LETTER lips listener Macbeth manner Mark Antony matter meaning memory metre mind monotony narrative natural necessary never observe orator oratory passages pause persons platform poetry power of sympathy practice precisely Public Readings pulpit purpose raise your voice reader readily reading aloud repeat rightly rules sentence sentiment sound speaker speech style success suggested talk taste teach tell tence thoughts tion tone tongue utterance voice words written
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Pagina 311 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause ; and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honour; and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom; and awake your senses that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Pagina 130 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Pagina 127 - Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards, his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear The very stones prate of my whereabout, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.
Pagina 314 - I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, — not without cause: What cause withholds you, then, to mourn for him? O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason!
Pagina 125 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Pagina 122 - To die, to sleep; To sleep perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Pagina 122 - ... tis nobler in the mind, to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune ; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, end them ? To die — to sleep...
Pagina 133 - And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, "As the Lord liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surely die. And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing and because he had no pity.
Pagina 128 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Pagina 317 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle: I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent, That day he overcame the Nervii: Look, in this place ran Cassius...