spread the happiness that follows in the wake of kindness and generosity. It becomes all men to be clothed in raiments befitting their stations in life, but to have within their bosoms loving and generous hearts is of far greater importance. Man's apparel is only indicative of his station in this life, but the possession of a noble heart, one that loves God and his fellow-man, shows that he possesses spiritual traits that will insure for him the Kingdom of Heaven. Here we have the substance that is contained in the Quality of Mercy Speech in three different garbs, and it would be a simple matter to dress it in three more distinct ways. The purpose of the repetition is to show how easy it is to retell in different words matter that one understands. No claim is here made for power or beauty in this language, the main aim being to demonstrate that paraphrasing increases the vocabulary, strengthens the memory, and develops the power of concentration, but it is also a fact that if one practices the re-stating of Shakespeare's divine language his own diction is bound to improve. Words, remember, when properly combined, are really living things because they contain immortal thoughts. Care, therefore, should be exercised to see that words are given their proper place and selected in such a manner as to clearly and instantly convey the thought that is contained in the sentence. Bear in mind that you must not think of words while you are speaking, the whole mentality should be centered upon the thought, and that the time to think of words is while you are studying them, and the place to study them is in the privacy of your room. it Keep a good dictionary at hand and use it. Whenever you come across a word that is new to you, look up and find out all you can about it. You will see and hear these strange words in many places, so jot them down in your notebook for future study. Industry, remember, is essential to success in all things, so if you would have an effective vocabulary, you must work for it. The work, however, will prove most interesting, and it will demonstrate to you in a striking manner that "labor, all labor, is noble and holy." INDEX Argument, the twofold purpose of, 34; combination of force and, 39 Argumentation, the aims of, 32 Articulate, failure to, 88 Articulation, faults of, 63 Bacon, Francis, 165 Beecher, Henry Ward, 10, 13 Blaine, James Gillespie, 26 Breath, the vitalizing force of, 50; the forms of, 95 Breathe, how to, 55 Breathing, the natural method of, 58; exercises in, 60 Brown, David Paul, 33 Bryan, William Jennings, 9, 13, 165 Bryant, William Cullen, 125 Byron, George Gordon Noel, 93, 113, 123 Burke, Edmund, 151, 154, 155 Catiline, Lucius Sergius, 26, 27 Chatham, Earl of, 13, 27, 39, 40, 121 Choate, Rufus, 10 Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 10, 12, 26, 27, 155, 164 Clay, Henry, 11, 13 Composition, the different forms of, 48 177 Conclusion, example of an impassioned, 40 Conkling, Roscoe, 11 Crassus, Lucius Lucinius, 10 Cords, the vocal, 70 Cousin, Victor, 134 Curran, John Philpot, 11, 13 Demosthenes, 9, 10, 12, 13, 27, 144, 155, 164, 165 Education, the necessity of, 5 Eliot, Charles William, 131 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 123, 138, 158, 166 Emphasis, 65; how to interpret by, 118; example of, 120; pitch as a mode of, 123; time as a mode of, 124; Enunciation, how the lips regulate, 64 Epictetus, 165 Epiglottis, the, 73 Erskine, Thomas, 11, 13 Force, combination of argument and, 39 Garfield, James Abram, 26 Gladstone, William Ewart, 13 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 136 Gorgias, 9, 12 Hastings, Warren, 151 Henry, Patrick, 12, 13, 27, 164 |