Effective Public Speaking: The Essentials of Extempore Speaking and of Gesture, Volumes 1-2Macmillan, 1917 - Gesture |
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... Openings .. 20 II . Complimentary Opening ... I. Reference to Attendant Circumstances . III . Narrative - Descriptive Opening . IV . The Literary Reference ... V. Allusion to Timely Remark or Incident .. D. Presenting the Subject ... E ...
... Openings .. 20 II . Complimentary Opening ... I. Reference to Attendant Circumstances . III . Narrative - Descriptive Opening . IV . The Literary Reference ... V. Allusion to Timely Remark or Incident .. D. Presenting the Subject ... E ...
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... , development or body and conclusion . B. THE FUNCTIONS OF THE INTRODUCTION I. Gaining the Attention The average audience to which a speaker ad- dresses himself has many and varied interests as it awaits the opening words . A sick child 1Ο.
... , development or body and conclusion . B. THE FUNCTIONS OF THE INTRODUCTION I. Gaining the Attention The average audience to which a speaker ad- dresses himself has many and varied interests as it awaits the opening words . A sick child 1Ο.
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... opening of a speech is not at the outset , but im- mediately afterward . It is even possible that the first three or four sentences may not be distinctly heard amid the rustle of the settling process . But these opening sentences should ...
... opening of a speech is not at the outset , but im- mediately afterward . It is even possible that the first three or four sentences may not be distinctly heard amid the rustle of the settling process . But these opening sentences should ...
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... opening . A brief pause will remedy this fault . In the second place , it will prevent the speaker from wasting his introductory re- marks in the subsiding murmur of the audience . The loss of the opening words tends to create a bad ...
... opening . A brief pause will remedy this fault . In the second place , it will prevent the speaker from wasting his introductory re- marks in the subsiding murmur of the audience . The loss of the opening words tends to create a bad ...
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... OPENINGS I. Reference to Attendant Circumstances If the circumstances attending the speaker's presence on the platform are of especial interest or significance , he may ... Openings Complimentary Opening Reference to Attendant Circumstances.
... OPENINGS I. Reference to Attendant Circumstances If the circumstances attending the speaker's presence on the platform are of especial interest or significance , he may ... Openings Complimentary Opening Reference to Attendant Circumstances.
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Page 144 - Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods ! When went there by an age, since the great flood, But it was famed with more than with one man...
Page 142 - 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 44 - Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received? Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation?
Page 44 - I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies?
Page 148 - ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have suffer'd greatly , both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when Thro...
Page 146 - Their dearest action in the tented field ; And little of this great world can' I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle; And therefore little shall I grace my cause, In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience, I will a round unvarnished tale deliver Of my whole course of love...
Page 164 - So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature's geometric signs, In starry flake, and pellicle All day the hoary meteor fell; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own. Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walls of the firmament, No cloud above, no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow!
Page 142 - Help me, Cassius, or I sink ! ' I, as ^Eneas our great ancestor • Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder The old Anchises bear, so from the waves of Tiber Did I the tired Caesar.
Page 167 - We piled, with care, our nightly stack Of wood against the chimney-back, — The oaken log, green, huge, and thick, And on its top the stout back-stick; The knotty forestick laid apart, And filled between with curious art The ragged brush; then, hovering near, We watched the first red blaze appear, Heard the sharp crackle, caught the gleam On whitewashed wall and sagging beam, • Until the old, rude-furnished room Burst, flower-like, into rosy bloom...
Page 73 - He determined to revisit the scene of the last evening's gambol, and if he met with any of the party, to demand his dog and gun. As he rose to walk, he found himself stiff in the joints, and wanting in his usual activity. " These mountain beds do not agree with me...