Art of Extempore Speaking ...Scribner, 1871 - 364 Seiten |
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able accent acquired action argument art of speaking assembly audience become body called CHAP CHARLES SCRIBNER Cicero cloquence conceived conception constitution deliberative assembly Demosthenes discourse effect eloquence Enthymeme especially everything exercise exordium expression extemporaneous extemporaneous speaking extemporisation fecundation feeling garius give glory hearer heart Hence human idea ignoratio elenchi images imagination impression inspiration instinct instruction intellectual intelligence interpene labour language least less light listen living Lord Granby manner matter means meditation ment mental method mind Molière moral motion nature never object orator oratorical organisation organs passion perly person possession precepts preparation produced public speaking pulpit question Quintilian reason requires riences Scribner & Co.'s sense sensibility sentence sorbed sort soul sound speak in public speaker speech syllables table of vowel talent teaching things thought tion truth understanding utterance vocal voice vowel whole words write
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Seite 306 - Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others ? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him ? Let history answer this question.
Seite 352 - ... now meet, to do themselves and him that honor, so surely as they shall see the blue summits of his native mountains rise in the horizon, so surely as they shall behold the river on whose banks he lived, and on whose banks he rests, still flowing on toward the sea, so surely may they see, as we now see, the flag of the Union floating on the top of the Capitol; and then, as now, may the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country!
Seite 305 - ... catacombs of living death, where the wretch that is buried a man, lies till his heart has time to fester and dissolve, and is then dug up a witness.
Seite 348 - If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why, then, a Borgia or a Catiline? Who knows, but He whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old Ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind, Or turns young Ammon loose to scourge mankind?
Seite 352 - A hundred years hence, other disciples of •Washington will celebrate his birth, with no less of sincere admiration than we now commemorate it. When they shall meet, as we now meet, to do themselves and him that honor, so surely as they shall see the blue summits of his native mountains rise in the horizon, so surely as they shall behold the river on whose banks he lived, and on whose banks he rests, still flowing...
Seite 305 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States, dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Seite 307 - France, a great terror fell upon this kingdom. On a sudden we awakened from our dreams of conquest, and saw ourselves threatened with an immediate invasion ; which we were at that time very ill prepared to resist. You remember the cloud that gloomed over us all. In that hour of our dismay, from the bottom of the hiding-places, into which the indiscriminate rigor of our statutes had driven them, came out the body of the Roman Catholics.
Seite 308 - 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...
Seite 38 - All the precepts and artifices on earth can but form the appearances or semblance of it. Now this true and natural eloquence which moves, persuades, and transports, consists of a soul and a body, like man, whose image, glory, and word it is. The soul of eloquence is the centre of the human soul itself, which, enlightened by the rays of an idea, or warmed and stirred by an impression, flashes or bursts forth to manifest, by some sign or other, what it feels or sees. This it is which gives movement...
Seite 310 - ... (to use the language of the advertisement prefixed to it) was a seditious libel ; the revolution was a wicked rebellion ; the existing government is a traitorous conspiracy against the hereditary monarchy of England ; and our gracious sovereign, whose title I am persuaded we are all of us prepared to defend with our blood, is an usurper of the crowns of these kingdoms.