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... readers . Keeping in view conventional usage , nature and common sense , the author has endeavored to strip elocution , as a study , of its repulsive , artificial character , and to make it plain , easy , and attractive . Its principles ...
... readers . Keeping in view conventional usage , nature and common sense , the author has endeavored to strip elocution , as a study , of its repulsive , artificial character , and to make it plain , easy , and attractive . Its principles ...
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... reader and yet how seldom do we listen to a person who really thinks himself a poor one ! We are in general the last to discover our own faults ; and when they are shown to us by the friendly hints and criticisms of others , we are ...
... reader and yet how seldom do we listen to a person who really thinks himself a poor one ! We are in general the last to discover our own faults ; and when they are shown to us by the friendly hints and criticisms of others , we are ...
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... readers and speakers , even among those who are esteemed well educated ? No doubt , in the majority of cases , the cause can be traced to a defective mode of early instruc- tion ; or perhaps to the misfortune of falling , at a later ...
... readers and speakers , even among those who are esteemed well educated ? No doubt , in the majority of cases , the cause can be traced to a defective mode of early instruc- tion ; or perhaps to the misfortune of falling , at a later ...
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... reader or speaker should be to graduate the force of his utterance to the space neces- sary to be reached , so as to make every word plainly audible to the persons addressed : that is , to speak just loud enough to be heard with ease ...
... reader or speaker should be to graduate the force of his utterance to the space neces- sary to be reached , so as to make every word plainly audible to the persons addressed : that is , to speak just loud enough to be heard with ease ...
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... reader . Pains must be taken also , not only to deliver the words distinctly and audibly , but with just such pause , quantity , inflection , tone , emphasis , and cadence ; and to vary them with just such a degree of slowness or ...
... reader . Pains must be taken also , not only to deliver the words distinctly and audibly , but with just such pause , quantity , inflection , tone , emphasis , and cadence ; and to vary them with just such a degree of slowness or ...
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Page 310 - Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the Republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured, bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as
Page 103 - Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed...
Page 300 - Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Page 300 - But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be.
Page 287 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.
Page 367 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty ! thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair : thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these Heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 77 - Then Jesus answering said unto them. Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised. to the poor the gospel is preached.
Page 260 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Page 101 - That, chang'd through all, and yet in all the same ; Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame ; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 377 - From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.