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... orator in the order of time had nothing to make him an orator but his head and his heart and his study of men . He had no treatises , no models , no ob- jective eloquence in any form , to guide him . He had only human nature to work ...
... orator in the order of time had nothing to make him an orator but his head and his heart and his study of men . He had no treatises , no models , no ob- jective eloquence in any form , to guide him . He had only human nature to work ...
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... orators , and , following them , the writers , for speech must have preceded writing , — had only men to study , their productions became to their successors an additional source of oratorical cul- ture . Observe : not an independent ...
... orators , and , following them , the writers , for speech must have preceded writing , — had only men to study , their productions became to their successors an additional source of oratorical cul- ture . Observe : not an independent ...
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... orator had . In the study of men a preacher should rank first his own mind . You have in your own selves an original and independent source of rhetorical knowledge . No other can be more so . ( 1 ) In development of this view , let it ...
... orator had . In the study of men a preacher should rank first his own mind . You have in your own selves an original and independent source of rhetorical knowledge . No other can be more so . ( 1 ) In development of this view , let it ...
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... , intonations , of an angry man , without meeting some of the elements of all earnest oratory . A man chasing his hat in a gale acts in pantomime a principle which Demosthenes could not safely ignore 8 [ LECT . I. MEN AND BOOKS .
... , intonations , of an angry man , without meeting some of the elements of all earnest oratory . A man chasing his hat in a gale acts in pantomime a principle which Demosthenes could not safely ignore 8 [ LECT . I. MEN AND BOOKS .
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... oration which passed at once into the standards of literature ; and Charles Sumner could command the most ... orators could get a hearing of ten minutes from a crowd in the street , if the Hon . Stephen A. Douglas were known to be there ...
... oration which passed at once into the standards of literature ; and Charles Sumner could command the most ... orators could get a hearing of ten minutes from a crowd in the street , if the Hon . Stephen A. Douglas were known to be there ...
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