The Science and Art of Elocution and Oratory: Containing Specimens of the Eloquence of the Pulpit, the Bar, the Stage, the Legislative Hall, and the Battlefield |
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... thought , emotion , and speech . Thought is an immortal action of mind , but confined to the individual being ; speaking is thought with a momen- tum , a noble , philanthropic action , that , like the sun , scatters its beams of light ...
... thought , emotion , and speech . Thought is an immortal action of mind , but confined to the individual being ; speaking is thought with a momen- tum , a noble , philanthropic action , that , like the sun , scatters its beams of light ...
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... thought . In the Comical and Musical part , many a moral is enforced , many a deep impression is given , and many a lesson of wis- dom is imparted through the medium of a hearty laugh , or by the smiles and sparkles of wit and humor ...
... thought . In the Comical and Musical part , many a moral is enforced , many a deep impression is given , and many a lesson of wis- dom is imparted through the medium of a hearty laugh , or by the smiles and sparkles of wit and humor ...
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... Thoughts , The Love of Home , Speak Gently , The Ocean Storm , The Old Oaken Bucket , William H. Seward . A Sacred Memory , Eulogy on Webster , Remember Me , Civil and Religious Liberty , Cassius against Cæsar , Horace Greeley , Tell on ...
... Thoughts , The Love of Home , Speak Gently , The Ocean Storm , The Old Oaken Bucket , William H. Seward . A Sacred Memory , Eulogy on Webster , Remember Me , Civil and Religious Liberty , Cassius against Cæsar , Horace Greeley , Tell on ...
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... thought and knowledge . To do this with elegance , force and effect , should be the ambi tion of every reader or speaker . The advantages you may derive from a persevering study and practice of the science and art , are many and ...
... thought and knowledge . To do this with elegance , force and effect , should be the ambi tion of every reader or speaker . The advantages you may derive from a persevering study and practice of the science and art , are many and ...
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... thought and emotion . The voice , looks , and gesture are natural language ; words and characters are artificial . The mind is the active agent and performer ; the body is the passive agent and instrument . The mind must be cultivated ...
... thought and emotion . The voice , looks , and gesture are natural language ; words and characters are artificial . The mind is the active agent and performer ; the body is the passive agent and instrument . The mind must be cultivated ...
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Page 154 - 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 ! 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...
Page 146 - Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
Page 58 - If we wish to be free, if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending, if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight ; I repeat it. sir, we must fight ! An appeal to arms, and to the God of Hosts, is all that is left us ! They tell us, sir, that we are weak, unable to cope...
Page 145 - Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love ? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir.
Page 226 - Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain ; And, when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake...
Page 145 - We have petitioned — we have remonstrated — we have supplicated — we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition, to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and parliament. Our petitions have been slighted ; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult ; our supplications have been disregarded ; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne.
Page 208 - Hark! They whisper: Angels say, Sister Spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite, Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath?
Page 225 - Dar'st thou, Cassius, now Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point?" Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in And bade him follow; so indeed he did. The torrent roared, and we did buffet it With lusty sinews, throwing it aside And stemming it with hearts of controversy; But ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried, "Help me, Cassius, or I sink!
Page 189 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat, if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not.
Page 145 - Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation — the last arguments to which kings resort.