The American Orator: Comprising a Collection, Principally from American Authors, of the Most Admired Specimens of Congressional, Forensic, Pulpit and Popular Eloquence, with Dialogues and Poetical Extracts, Adapted to Public Recitation : and an Introduction, Embracing the Principle Rules Relating to Delivery and Action |
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... command ; preserve your body in an erect attitude while you are speaking ; let all the consonant sounds be expressed with a full impulse or percussion of the breath , and a forcible action of the organs employed in forming them ; and ...
... command ; preserve your body in an erect attitude while you are speaking ; let all the consonant sounds be expressed with a full impulse or percussion of the breath , and a forcible action of the organs employed in forming them ; and ...
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... command . Many of those would neither be proper nor agreeable in speaking ; but the exercise will give you such a command of voice as is scarcely to be acquired by any other method . Having repeated the experiment till you can speak ...
... command . Many of those would neither be proper nor agreeable in speaking ; but the exercise will give you such a command of voice as is scarcely to be acquired by any other method . Having repeated the experiment till you can speak ...
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... command of the army , that highest of all possible trusts in any government , be the form what it may - was reposed in the bosom of the fath- er of his country ! -the sanctuary of a nation's love - the only hope that never came in vain ...
... command of the army , that highest of all possible trusts in any government , be the form what it may - was reposed in the bosom of the fath- er of his country ! -the sanctuary of a nation's love - the only hope that never came in vain ...
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... command ! when Washington himself was at the head- did you then shew such reluctance , feel such scruples ; and are you now nothing loth , fearless of every conse- quence ! Will you say that your provocations were less then than now ...
... command ! when Washington himself was at the head- did you then shew such reluctance , feel such scruples ; and are you now nothing loth , fearless of every conse- quence ! Will you say that your provocations were less then than now ...
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... command the whole abundance of the national resources . In time you may enable yourselves to redress injuries , in the place where they may be offered , and if need be , to accompany your own flag throughout the world , with the ...
... command the whole abundance of the national resources . In time you may enable yourselves to redress injuries , in the place where they may be offered , and if need be , to accompany your own flag throughout the world , with the ...
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Page 303 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Page 316 - Twas but a kindred sound to move, For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour, but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying; If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Page 76 - ... who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material ; and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
Page 177 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Page 322 - 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 313 - When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, Her bow across her shoulder flung, Her buskins gem'd with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known...
Page 316 - The princes applaud with a furious joy: And the King seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy; Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen fired another Troy...
Page 314 - TWAS at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son: Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...