The Art of Extempore Speaking: Hints for the Pulpit, the Senate, and the Bar |
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The Art of Extempore Speaking: Hints for the Pulpit, the Senate and the Bar L (Louis) 1796-1867 Bautain No preview available - 2021 |
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able accent according acquired action argument art of speaking assembly audience become body called CHAP Cicero conceived conception constitution deliberative assembly Demosthenes discourse effect elocution 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 larynx least less light listen living Lord Granby manner matter means meditation ment mental method mind Molière moral motion nature never object one's orator oratorical organisation organs passion perly person possession precepts preparation principles produced public speaking pulpit question Quintilian reason requires riences sense sensibility sentence sorbed sort soul sound speak in public speaker speech success syllables table of vowel talent teaching things thought tion truth understanding utterance vocal voice vowel whole words write youth
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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 359 - When a question is under debate no motion shall be received but to adjourn; to lay on the table...
Page 352 - But let us hope for better things. Let us trust in that gracious Being who has hitherto held our country as in the hollow of his hand. Let us trust to the virtue and the intelligence of the people, and to the efficacy of religious obligation. Let us trust to the influence of Washington's example. Let us hope that that fear of Heaven which expels all other fear, and that regard to duty which transcends all other regard, may influence...
Page 320 - It is a harsh doctrine, that men grow wicked in proportion as they improve and enlighten their minds. Experience has by no means justified us in the supposition that there is more virtue in one class of men than in another. Look through the rich and the poor of the community; the learned and the ignorant. Where does virtue predominate ? The difference indeed consists not in the quantity, but kind of vices, which are incident to various classes; and here the advantage of character belongs to the wealthy.
Page 352 - ... 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 on...
Page 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!
Page 352 - ... commenced. 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...
Page 318 - State of Mississippi, to the Congress of the United States, and claim a seat on this floor, not as a matter of favour, but as a matter of right.
Page 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.