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... interest to the very end . This is often used effectively in sustained climaxes , oratorical periods , or sustained sentences . Wendell Phillips was a master of this form . Champion of an unpopular 92 PRACTICAL PUBLIC SPEAKING.
... interest to the very end . This is often used effectively in sustained climaxes , oratorical periods , or sustained sentences . Wendell Phillips was a master of this form . Champion of an unpopular 92 PRACTICAL PUBLIC SPEAKING.
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... sentence , he could not have finished it- they would not have let him go farther . But as it was , he kept them guessing to the very last word . Just note the masterly skill with which he built his sentence , using the psychology of ...
... sentence , he could not have finished it- they would not have let him go farther . But as it was , he kept them guessing to the very last word . Just note the masterly skill with which he built his sentence , using the psychology of ...
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... sentence , compact , barbed and singing as it flies . At the sound of it , uproar doubles . He waits , standing like an archer with bow drawn . At the next lull , almost before the crowd is aware , he has loosened two of his burning ...
... sentence , compact , barbed and singing as it flies . At the sound of it , uproar doubles . He waits , standing like an archer with bow drawn . At the next lull , almost before the crowd is aware , he has loosened two of his burning ...
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... SENTENCE - BUILDING The modern tendency is to simplify sentence struc- ture . Long - drawn - out , complicated sentences cause much grief to the speaker and make delivery doubly difficult . Amateur speakers should avoid long , in ...
... SENTENCE - BUILDING The modern tendency is to simplify sentence struc- ture . Long - drawn - out , complicated sentences cause much grief to the speaker and make delivery doubly difficult . Amateur speakers should avoid long , in ...
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... Sentence . THE LOOSE SENTENCE This is the most common form ; a sentence is said to be " loose " when the thought is completed before the end . Example : " The Orator must have in his nature that kindly sympathy which connects him with ...
... Sentence . THE LOOSE SENTENCE This is the most common form ; a sentence is said to be " loose " when the thought is completed before the end . Example : " The Orator must have in his nature that kindly sympathy which connects him with ...
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Abraham Lincoln action after-dinner appeal argument attention audi audience beauty begin breath Brutus Cæsar chapter Chauncey Depew climax cold color Damascus debate deliver delivery develop diaphragm effective eloquence emotion emphasis ence expression extemporaneous eyes fact factor force friends gesture give hear hearers heart Henry Ward Beecher human human voice humor idea important inflection lack lawyer lips listen logical look Mark Antony Mark Twain matter means memory ment mental mind monotony natural ness never occasion Oliver Wendell Holmes orator pause picture pitch platform Practical Speaking preparation public speaking sentence soul sound speaker speech stage fright stand story student talk technic tell thing thought and feeling thousand tion toast tone Toussaint l'Ouverture vocal voice WENDELL PHILLIPS words
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Страница 365 - I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me, That my soul cannot resist; A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.
Страница 237 - DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
Страница 96 - I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar.
Страница 432 - Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power and to set up amongst the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles.
Страница 96 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man.
Страница 98 - 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...
Страница 259 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause ; and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honour; and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom; and awake your senses that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Страница 99 - O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity : these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what ! weep you, when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here, Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
Страница 432 - ... for the ultimate peace of the world and for the liberation of its peoples, the German peoples included: for the rights of nations great and small and the privilege of men everywhere to choose their way of life and of obedience. The world must be made safe for democracy.
Страница 193 - The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together.