Elements of Public SpeakingGinn, 1916 - 333 pagina's It is the purpose of this textbook to present a cleare statement of the elements of speaking via accurately expressed theory and a method of practice. |
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Pagina vi
... true expression , and to make absolutely unmistakable the fact that any expression that is without thought as a basis is bound to be more or less mechanical and , therefore , superficial . My observation has been that many people who ...
... true expression , and to make absolutely unmistakable the fact that any expression that is without thought as a basis is bound to be more or less mechanical and , therefore , superficial . My observation has been that many people who ...
Pagina ix
... true foundation of action . Some common misconceptions . Value of training in action . Two essentials of training in action . Importance of exercising the will . Platform manners . Position . Poise . Freedom . Platform movement ...
... true foundation of action . Some common misconceptions . Value of training in action . Two essentials of training in action . Importance of exercising the will . Platform manners . Position . Poise . Freedom . Platform movement ...
Pagina 3
... true in the choice of a subject for any occasion . We tend always to have respect for the opinions of one who speaks with recognized authority . This principle is not uncommonly violated in the choice of a subject for a school or ...
... true in the choice of a subject for any occasion . We tend always to have respect for the opinions of one who speaks with recognized authority . This principle is not uncommonly violated in the choice of a subject for a school or ...
Pagina 24
... true function of the conclusion is not to develop anything , but merely to conclude what has already been developed . Sometimes it makes a summary of the points , as is the common form of conclusion in arguments ; again , it may be the ...
... true function of the conclusion is not to develop anything , but merely to conclude what has already been developed . Sometimes it makes a summary of the points , as is the common form of conclusion in arguments ; again , it may be the ...
Pagina 41
... true conversa- tional speaking . His mode of conversation may be very colloquial or it may have a marked degree of formality about it , as will be better understood after reading the latter part of this discussion ; but in either ...
... true conversa- tional speaking . His mode of conversation may be very colloquial or it may have a marked degree of formality about it , as will be better understood after reading the latter part of this discussion ; but in either ...
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९९ able accent accomplish action Alexander Melville Bell attempt attention audience becomes beginning Bobby Shaftoe body breath chapter clear clearly color common consonant constantly conversation cultivation declamation definite desirable diaphragm discussion earnestness effective elements emotions employed entirely enunciation essential EXERCISE expression falling inflections fault feeling force gain gesture give given habit hands hearers idea important impulse Julius Cæsar kind less listen Lord Chatham lungs manner means mechanical merely mind mispronounced short mode of delivery monotony movement muscles natural necessary needs never occasion orator outline pause phrase pipe organ platform practice principle pronounced pronunciation public speaking purpose rate of utterance reserve power result rhythm sentence Smiley Blanton speaker speech plan stand student suggested syllables teacher theme thing thought tion tone topic usually vocal emphasis vocal stress voice vowel vowel sounds Wendell Phillips Whig words
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Pagina 282 - In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free, if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges, for which we have been so long contending — if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight ; I repeat it, sir, we must...
Pagina 284 - ... s his reason ? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions ? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is ? If you prick us, do we not bleed ? if you tickle us, do we not laugh ? if you poison us, do we not die ? and if you wrong usy shall We not revenge?
Pagina 306 - For I can raise no money by vile means: By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection: I did send To you for gold to pay my legions, Which you denied me: was that done like Cassius?
Pagina 241 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Pagina 237 - Liberty first and Union afterwards," but everywhere spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, — "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!
Pagina 239 - SWEET and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea ! Over the rolling waters go, Come from the dying moon, and blow, Blow him again to me ; While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps. Sleep and rest, sleep and rest, Father will come to thee soon ; Rest, rest, on mother's breast, Father will come to thee soon ; Father will come to his babe in the nest, Silver sails all out of the west Under the silver moon : Sleep, my little one, sleep,...
Pagina 208 - VENERABLE MEN! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago, this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered! The same heavens are indeed over your heads; the same ocean rolls at your feet; but all else how changed ! You hear now no roar of hostile cannon, you see no mixed volumes...
Pagina 284 - He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?
Pagina 312 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature : for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as '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 240 - A fool, a fool ! I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool ; a miserable world ! As I do live by food, I met a fool ; Who laid him down and basked him in the sun, And railed on Lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms, and yet a motley fool. ' Good morrow, fool,