Beeton's Complete Orator, Including the Art of Public Speaking and British Orators and OratoryWard Lock, 1881 - 288 pagina's |
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Pagina 2
... hear you with very little attention . He conceives eloquence to signify a certain trick of speech ; the art of varnishing weak arguments plausibly ; or of speaking so as to please and tickle the ear . " Give me good sense , " says he ...
... hear you with very little attention . He conceives eloquence to signify a certain trick of speech ; the art of varnishing weak arguments plausibly ; or of speaking so as to please and tickle the ear . " Give me good sense , " says he ...
Pagina 7
... hear . Expansiveness of Character . Another necessary quality mentioned by M. Bautain is what he calls " Expansiveness of Character . " This he thus explains : " When we perceive , or think that we perceive , a truth , the mind re ...
... hear . Expansiveness of Character . Another necessary quality mentioned by M. Bautain is what he calls " Expansiveness of Character . " This he thus explains : " When we perceive , or think that we perceive , a truth , the mind re ...
Pagina 19
... hear me . " These examples should give great encouragement to those who really are determined to distinguish themselves . Nervousness is the first stumbling - block in the way of the speaker , and of it only this is to be said , that it ...
... hear me . " These examples should give great encouragement to those who really are determined to distinguish themselves . Nervousness is the first stumbling - block in the way of the speaker , and of it only this is to be said , that it ...
Pagina 20
... hear less of short memories . Artificial Systems . Several artificial systems of memory have been in use from the days of Simonides - the first to teach such a system - downwards . Upon this point we do not mean here to enlarge . There ...
... hear less of short memories . Artificial Systems . Several artificial systems of memory have been in use from the days of Simonides - the first to teach such a system - downwards . Upon this point we do not mean here to enlarge . There ...
Pagina 30
... hear a thousand coffee - house debates every day , am very sensible of this want of method in the thoughts of my honest countrymen . There is not one dispute in ten which is managed in those schools of politics , where , after the first ...
... hear a thousand coffee - house debates every day , am very sensible of this want of method in the thoughts of my honest countrymen . There is not one dispute in ten which is managed in those schools of politics , where , after the first ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 80 - It is easy' in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Pagina 128 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften and concluded to give the copper.
Pagina 80 - And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you. I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts : I am no orator, as Brutus is ; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend...
Pagina 112 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!
Pagina 99 - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke...
Pagina 10 - Atlantic wave ? Is India free ? and does she wear her plumed And jewelled turban with a smile of peace, Or do we grind her still? The grand debate, The popular harangue, the tart reply, The logic, and the wisdom, and the wit...
Pagina 64 - I pray and exhort you not to reject this measure. By all you hold most dear — by all the ties that bind every one of us to our common order and our common country, I solemnly adjure you — I warn you — I implore you — yea, on my bended knees, I supplicate you — reject not this bill!
Pagina 118 - So am I as the rich, whose blessed key Can bring him to his sweet up-locked treasure, The which he will not every hour survey, For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure. Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare, Since, seldom coming, in the long year set, Like stones of worth they thinly placed are, Or captain jewels.in the carcanet.
Pagina 129 - To give the greater effect to this exclamation, he stamped with his foot, lifted up his hands and eyes to heaven, and with gushing tears, cried aloud, ' Stop, Gabriel ! Stop, ere you enter the sacred portals, and yet carry with you the news of one sinner converted to God.